Название: Airlift and Airborne Operations in World War II
Автор: Roger E. Bilstein
Издательство: Air Force History and Museums Program
Страниц: 55
Формат: PDF
Размер: 14 mb
Качество: хорошее
Язык: английский
Год: 1998
ISBN: 9781410220141

As World War II unfolded in Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s, U.S. military planners realized the nation’s airlift and airborne combat combat capability was underdeveloped and out of date. The U.S. Army Air Forces relied largely on civil airline equipment and personnel to launch the Air Transport Command’s intercontinental routes to overseas combat zones.