Pilot retention is decreasing to historically low levels, due in part to the inability of the current USAF personnel system to satisfy demands for job security, assignment selection, and self-esteem. The 'dual-track' system by which several Air...
This report is an account of Germany's oil economy from 1933 up to the time of her defeat. Its compilation is the result of the work of three groups: the Technical Sub-Committee on Axis Oil, the Oil Committee of the Combined Strategic Targets...
Reports on Operation Husky including G-2 information and intelligence, counterintelligence, landing attack plan, follow-up plan, operational plans, sortie plan, and intelligence plans.
This document describes the conquest of Sicily (preparatory measures, the assault, the enemy’s stand at Catania, reduction of the island, and a diary of the Sicilian campaign), air operations, air transport, etc., during World War II.
This report is presented as a factual record of the affect of the Combined Bomber Offensive during 1943 and the first nine months of 1944. A comprehensive list of important damaged plants, with a record of attacks on them is included.
The insignia consists of the distinctive shield, flanked on sides and bottom by curved, ribboned border. The shield is stamped with the image of a sword rising from a sphere to touch an eight pointed star. The sword is in gold toned pot metal....
G-2 intelligence survey of Northeastern Sicily, including studies of terrain, transportation routes, civilian infrastructure, and population statistics.
Report on the Eighth Air Force's mission to target multiple defensive installations, concentrating their efforts against targets in Ruhland, Germany, Drohobez, Poland, Arad, Roumania and Beziers, France.
Studies the Air Battle of Ploesti: its strategic importance, German defenses, Allied operations, the results of operations and lessons to be learned. Discusses the importance of petroleum, the vulnerability of oil refineries, German defenses at...
Ruggles, J. F.; Abel, J. D.; Kern, W. B.; Kinney, A.J.; Pitchford, J. C.; Russell, D. C.
Studies the Balkan States and analyzes the geographical, economic, political, sociological and military factors of these states, individually and collectively, to determine their power potential and its possible effects on the United States. Paper...
The country of India continues to straddle the crossroads of East and West, much as it has done throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As the world's fastest growing population with an enormous capitalist appetite, India finds itself...
USAF Historical Division, Air University; Taylor, Joe Gray
This monograph covers the development of United States Air Force night operations through World War II in detail. It gives brief treatment to the period between wars, and treats of night air operations in Korea through 30 June 1952. It details...
This qualitative thesis examines the Coast Guard's historic participation in special operations and a potential national requirement for designated Coast Guard special operations forces. Some observers have rejected the label, “Global War on...