Case Studies in the Achievement of Air Superiority - Air Force ...

CONTRIBUTORS
Out of the Shadows: Canada in the Second World War and a contributing
author to Men At War: Politics, Technology and Innovation in the Twentieth
Century. He is also the editor of A Rattle of Pebbles: The First
World War Diaries of Two Canadian Airmen. His articles on aspects
of tactical air power have been required reading at West Point and the
USAF Academy. He is the designated principal author of the forthcoming
third volume of the Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force
(RCAF), which will deal with RCAF operations overseas during the Second
World War.
ROBIN HIGHAM was born and educated both in Great Britain and
the United States before joining the Royal Air Force as a pilot, 1943-47.
After graduating cum laude from Harvard University in 1950 and earning a
Master of Arts at the Claremont Graduate School in 1953, he returned to
Harvard for his Ph.D. in Oceanic and British History. After teaching at the
Universities of Massachusetts and North Carolina, he moved to Kansas
State University in 1963. In 1968 he became Editor of Military Affairs and
in 1970 of Aerospace Historian, journals well known in their fields. From
1975 to 1985 he served on the Publications Committee of the International
Commission for Comparative Military History. In 1986 he was appointed a
member of the State Aviation Advisory Committee of Kansas.
Higham’s professional publications include such pioneering edited
works as OfJicial Histories with contributors from around the world; A
Guide to the Sources of British Military History; A Guide to the Sources of
U.S. Military History with Donald J. Mrozek; and with Jacob W. Kipp, the
Garland series of international bibliographies in military history. He and
Dr. Kipp also edited as well as contributed to Soviet Aviation and Air
Power. Even more directly related to aviation have been his own monographs
including Britain’s Imperial Air Routes, 1918-1939; The British
Rigid Airship, 1908-1931: A Study in Weapons Policy; Armed Forces in
Peacetime: Britain, 1918-1940; The Military Intellectuals in Britain; Air
Power: A Concise History; and The Diary of a Disaster: British Aid to
Greece, 1940-1941. In addition he has published a wide range of articles,
and for all these many contributions he was made the first recipient of the
American Military Institute’s Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for contributions
to the field of military history in 1986.
I. B. HOLLEY, JR., is Professor of History at Duke University, Durham,
North Carolina. Born in Connecticut, he received his B.A. from
Amherst College in 1940, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in 1942 and 1947,
respectively, from Yale University. He served for five years in the U.S.
Army Air Forces during World War I1 and then joined the U.S. Air Force
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