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FIGURE 3-2 Organization of the Air Defenses, Summer 1940 FIGHTER COMMAND A.A. Command I No. 10 Group (S.W. England) t Balloon Command 1st A.A. Div. (London), I I I No. 11 Group (S.E. England) t 2nd A.A. Div. (Eastern Counties No. 12 Group (Eastern Counties and Midlands) No. 13 Group (Northern England, Scotland and No. 60 Group (Radar Chain) t I 6th A.A Div. (S.E. Counties) t I m 7th A.A Div. (N.E. Counties) I OSDEF (Orkneys and Shetlands) I 3rd A.A. Div. (Scotland and .N. Ireland) 4th A.A. Div. (N.W. Counties, West Midlands and N. Wales) I 5th A.A. Div. (South Wales and S.W. England) 122
BATTLE OF BRITAIN because they were no match for the German Me-109, have not been counted in this narrative.8 Dowding began the battle with 916 pilots in the Spitfire and Hurricane squadrons. This number rose to 924 on August 1 and 946 a month later. However, in the 3 months of the battle he lost 585, or 64 percent; therefore, to emerge from the fight as he did, he actually used 1,509 pilots. It can be argued that had he had a higher initial establishment, he might have suffered fewer casualties. Not only would more pilots per squadron have meant less combat fatigue, but it would also have insured the availability of more experienced pilots for training and leading newcomers, resulting in fewer novices thrown into combat too soon. Thus it can be argued that with 48 Hurricane and Spitfire squadrons averaging 12 serviceable aircraft each, Dowding should have been provided with an establishment of twice as many pilots as he had aircraft: that is, 1,512, or 588 more than he had on August 1. This would not have been an impossible figure to obtain if the worthless squadrons of Battles in Bomber Command, and Blenheim I biplanes, and possibly Defiants in Fighter Command, had been stripp'ed of their pilots, as will be noted later. Experience, of course was another matter. The AOC-in-C, Dowding, himself had wartime command experience, but was just over a week away from retirement on July 5 when the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair, asked him to stay on for another three months. It was, as Dowding pointed out to Sinclair, the fifth postponement. The repeated delays in granting retirement hardly bred confidence or good relations with the Air Ministry. And indeed, the manner of Dowding's retirement and subsequent treatment remained a subject of controversy, The truth was that no air marshal wished to fight a defensive fighter battle, especially since the Prime Minister had already in June 1940 made it clear publicly that it would be to save civilization.y In July, as the Germans attacked the convoys, the British fighters were ordered to go for the bombers and to avoid melees with the enemy fighters, since only the bombers could do much damage to Great Britain.'" In truth, the struggle over the sea was more wearing than effective, though the principles were correct on both sides. However, better targets were available if intelligence and tactics had permitted their exploitation. On the English side of the Channel Fighter Command had from sixteen to thirty-two aircraft on each of its forward airfields, while many of the aircraft factories upon which the RAF depended, and especially the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire factories, were well within German bomber range. Yet, these targets initially were ignored even though the Germans had photographed them before the war in clandestine high-altitude PRU (photointelligence) sweeps." Conversely, on the German side of the Channel there were some fifty airfields within range, each with some fifty German aircraft packed onto them, against which the RAF could have sent low- 123
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SPECIAL STUDIES Case Studies in the
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Foreword Writing in 1978, General W
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United States Air Force Historical
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Contents Foreword .................
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Savoia-Marchetti SM-79 ............
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EC-121 in flight over South Vietnam
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Offensive Against Germany, air supe
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1 Developments and Lessons before W
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LESSONS BEFORE WORLD WAR I1 Officer
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LESSONS BEFORE WORLD WAR I1 learned
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LESSONS BEFORE WORLD WAR I1 1918. I
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Left: Giulio Douhet: Below: Brig. G
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LESSONS BEFORE WORLD WAR I1 keeping
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TABLE 1-1 Comparative Squadron Stre
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LESSONS BEFORE WORLD WAR I1 of Loya
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LESSONS BEFORE WORLD WAR I1 for a F
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LESSONS BEFORE WORLD WAR I1 Formati
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LESSONS BEFORE WORLD WAR I1 Accordi
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The premier RAF fighters were the H
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LESSONS BEFORE WORLD WAR I1 aviator
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LESSONS BEFORE WORLD WAR I1 America
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LESSONS BEFORE WORLD WAR I1 Corps t
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LESSONS BEFORE WORLD WAR I1 pursuit
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LESSONS BEFORE WORLD WAR I1 United
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LESSONS BEFORE WORLD WAR I1 Employm
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t LESSONS BEFORE WORLD WAR I1 Army
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2 The Luftwaffe Against Poland and
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4 .- . , Prominent Luftwaffe leader
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BATTLE OF BRITAIN 67. Michael J. F.
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BATTLE OF BRITAIN Guide to the Sour
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4 The Soviet Air Force Against Germ
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SOVIET AIR FORCE Stalin’s forced
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SOVIET AIR FORCE and Stalin saw muc
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SOVIET AIR FORCE Oborony], or GKO,
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SOVIET AIR FORCE airfields were eit
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SOVIET AIR FORCE had some 2,500 pla
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SOVIET AIR FORCE Organizational Cha
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SOVIET AIR FORCE Development of Air
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SOVIET AIR FORCE experience that ga
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SOVIET AIR FORCE July 1942, and by
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SOVIET AIR FORCE excellence. Anothe
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SOVIET AIR FORCE live up to expecta
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SOVIET AIR FORCE Soviet radar, or R
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SOVIET AIR FORCE The VVS was not on
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SOVIET AIR FORCE Ya. Malinovsky, wa
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SOVIET AIR FORCE pocket in early 19
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SOVIET AIR FORCE acy over the Easte
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SOVIET Am FORCE VVS in the Initial
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SOVIET AIR FORCE 80. Russian Air Fo
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SOVIET AIR FORCE Commanders, Genera
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5 Northwest Africa, 1942-1943 David
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NORTHWEST AFRICA The failure of the
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NORTHWEST AFRICA command, and contr
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NORTHWEST AFRICA land forces tangle
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NORTHWEST AFRICA Command Crisis Eis
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NORTHWEST AFRICA ter. Portal agreed
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J B . ... d Lt. Gen. Carl Spaatz, C
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NORTHWEST AFRICA The Allied Air For
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I-’-i I I First Eighth Northwest
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NORTHWEST AFRICA about by sending u
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NORTHWEST AFRICA Allied Air Support
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NORTHWEST AFRICA doctrine for the e
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NORTHWEST AFRICA their fighter esco
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NORTHWEST AFRICA the weight of the
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NORTHWEST AFRICA to stop movement o
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AIR SUPERIORITY twenty-eight of the
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AIR SUPERIORITY sorties a day. By J
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AIR SUPERIORITY missing, while they
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AIR SUPERIORITY ance from the enemy
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AIR SUPERIORITY mander. The superio
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AIR SUPERIORITY Notes 1. AAF Histor
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AIR SUPERIORITY 52. Memo by Spaatz,
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AIR SUPERIORITY History Institute a
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Martin B-26 Marauder, resplendent i
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AIR SUPERIORITY advantage in any tr
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AIR SUPERIORITY FIGURE 6-1 Allied a
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AIR SUPERIORITY standards at the en
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AIR SUPERIORITY resistant to battle
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AIR SUPERIORITY More specifically,
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N 00 N POLAND GERMANY 0 Beauvais Wi
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AIR SUPERIORITY Republic’s hefty
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FIGURE 6-2 Allied Command Structure
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AIR SUPERIORITY FIGURE 6-3 Eighth A
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AIR SUPERIORITY difference in speed
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AIR SUPERIORITY The increased stren
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AIR SUPERIORITY bombs would probabl
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AIR SUPERIORITY efforts of the stra
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AIR SUPERIORITY At the time, it was
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AIR SUPERIORITY It was the responsi
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AIR SUPERIORITY Luftwaffe prior to
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AIR SUPERIORITY of enemy reinforcem
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AIR SUPERIORITY stocks of fuel and
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AIR SUPERIORITY b Top-ranking Ameri
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AIR SUPERIORITY at very short range
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AIR SUPERIORITY production. USSTAF
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AIR SUPERIORITY ized fighter-bomber
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AIR SUPERIORITY 16. USSBS, MAD, “
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AIR SUPERIORITY Box 135. Hughes, ho
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AIR SUPERIORITY Bibliographical Ess
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AIR SUPERIORITY ing because British
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AIR SUPERIORITY Planning for the Pa
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AUSTRALIA 326
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AIR SUPERIORITY to Japanese fighter
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AIR SUPERIORITY highly trained Japa
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AIR SUPERIORITY Guadalcanal in the
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AIR SUPERIORITY 20, escort carrier
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AIR SUPERIORITY attacks against a s
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AIR SUPERIORITY fighters. American
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AIR SUPERIORITY During the fighting
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AIR SUPERIORITY tional Allied air f
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AIR SUPERIORITY launched no more da
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AIR SUPERIORITY the great Japanese
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AIR SUPERIORITY part to play in the
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AIR SUPERIORITY sixty-seven B-25s c
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AIR SUPERIORITY had been at Pearl H
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AIR SUPERIORITY The preinvasion ach
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AIR SUPERIORITY bringing reinforcem
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AIR SUPERIORITY er, a transport, an
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AIR SUPERIORITY achieved, and in de
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AIR SUPERIORITY Sooner or later in
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AIR SUPERIORITY ning of the Leyte c
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AIR SUPERIORITY Notes 1. Thomas H.
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AIR SUPERIORITY 29. Craven and Cate
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AIR SUPERIORITY 11: The War in the
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AIR SUPERIORITY are the History of
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AIR SUPERIORITY Carroll Dyer, The A
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AIR SUPERIORITY be pedestrian, and
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AIR SUPERIORITY ority over the stra
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AIR SUPERIORITY As for the views of
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AIR SUPERIORITY January 10, 1942, t
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THE DOOLITTLE RAID, Above: One of C
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AIR SUPERIORITY enemy aircraft were
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AIR SUPERIORITY Japanese critics as
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Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, Commander i
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AIR SUPERIORITY The Japanese Homela
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AIR SUPERIORITY ordered to disperse
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AIR SUPERIORITY more modest report
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AIR SUPERIORITY enemy’s defense s
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AIR SUPERIORITY in the spring of 19
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AIR SUPERIORITY With the intensific
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AIR SUPERIORITY time. This inabilit
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AIR SUPERIORITY the 10th Air Divisi
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AIR SUPERIORITY invasion, they reli
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AIR SUPERIORITY over the Ryukyus wi
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AIR SUPERIORITY 10, at a cost of on
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AIR SUPERIORITY On the morning of A
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AIR SUPERIORITY that day; 3 Mustang
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AIR SUPERIORITY above them and lost
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AIR SUPERIORITY Force was finally a
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AIR SUPERIORITY Hellcats, Corsairs,
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AIR SUPERIORITY Ariake Bay, and Kus
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AIR SUPERIORITY drawal of aircraft
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AIR SUPERIORITY Conclusions This ch
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AIR SUPERIORITY Allied air power. T
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AIR SUPERIORITY In achieving de fuc
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AIR SUPERIORITY strategic alternati
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AIR SUPERIORITY While carrying out
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AIR SUPERIORITY North Korea and the
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AIR SUPERIORITY ‘ r on July 20, N
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AIR SUPERIORITY the carriers’ Com
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AIR SUPERIORITY from Sinuiju to Cho
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AIR SUPERIORITY cruised at very dif
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AIR SUPERIORITY the bullets fired a
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AIR SUPERIORITY vailed among the le
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AIR SUPERIORITY The Fourth FI Wing
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AIR SUPERIORITY across North Korea
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AIR SUPERIORITY the clouds by day a
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AIR SUPERIORITY obtain a bearing on
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AIR SUPERIORITY (See Table 9-9) The
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AIR SUPERIORITY General Weyland, FE
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AIR SUPERIORITY had drastically imp
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AIR SUPERIORITY Chinese and North K
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AIR SUPERIORITY mented their streng
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AIR SUPERIORITY opponents operating
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AIR SUPERIORITY Fighter Weapons Rev
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AIR SUPERIORITY weights Over Korea:
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AIR SUPERIORITY then governed aircr
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AIR SUPERIORITY The F-105 Thunderch
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AIR SUPERIORITY On March 31, 1968,
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CHINA / LAOS THAILAND - North Vietn
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AIR SUPERIORITY winds were from the
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AIR SUPERIORITY forces. To facilita
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TABLE 10-3 Aircraft Assigned to Sou
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AIR SUPERIORITY never threatened U.
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AIR SUPERIORITY never need to engag
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SOUTHEAST ASIA The SA-2, however, w
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SOUTHEAST ASIA jamming static with
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SOUTHEAST ASIA In April, the Presid
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SOUTHEAST ASIA aircraft guns, NVAF
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SOUTHEAST ASIA system.80 This probl
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SOUTHEAST ASIA Air Force Base, Guam
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SOUTHEAST ASIA At the beginning of
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SOUTHEAST ASIA Conclusion U.S. forc
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SOUTHEAST ASIA however, were not re
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SOUTHEAST ASIA Notes I . The Pentag
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SOUTHEAST ASIA by Col. Delberth Cor
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11 The Israeli Experience Brereton
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THE ISRAELI EXPERIENCE Geo-Strategi
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THE ISRAELI EXPERIENCE King Hussein
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12 Some Concluding Insights I. B. H
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CONCLUSION the problems of tomorrow
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CONCLUSION commander must avoid dis
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Contributors LEONARD BAKER was a jo
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CONTRIBUTORS Out of the Shadows: Ca
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CONTRIBUTORS Theater, 1944-45 ,”
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Index ABDA (American-British- Dutch
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INDEX 11-28: 523 MiG-15: 525, 546 M
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INDEX 401 -402 effectiveness of, No
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INDEX Black Sunday, for Allied bomb
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INDEX Coastwatchers in New Guinea:
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INDEX created: 246 strength of: 256
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INDEX Nile River Israeli air attack
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INDEX 505-506, 554 air superiority
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INDEX attacks on: 460, 484 capital:
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INDEX Warfare: 180 Solomon Islands.
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INDEX Sugawara, Michio, commander,
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INDEX role of: 165-166 Union of Sov
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INDEX See also Air superiority. air
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INDEX 395, 408 Western Desert Air F
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