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

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Theater, 1944-45 ,” (Aerospace Historian, Spring 1980) and “Close Air Support
for the British Army, 1939-45” (Military Affairs, Winter 1982) shed
some light on tactical air organization, doctrine, and operations in the Second
World War. His “Strategic Bombing and American National Strategy,
1941-43,” (Military Affairs, Summer 1986) is an examination of the process
by which an American strategic bombing offensive became part of Allied
strategy. Jacobs’s analysis of the organizational politics of Allied air command
appeared in the Journal of Strategic Studies in March 1988. Jacobs is
currently working on a comparative study of the operations of RAF
Bomber Command and the American Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces.
WILLIAMSON MURRAY is Associate Professor of History at Ohio
State University. After active service in the United States Air Force, he
received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1975. He is the author of two
books, The Change in the European Balance of Power, 1938-1939: the Path
to Ruin and Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe, 1933-1945. He has also
authored numerous articles that have appeared in scholarly and military
journals. Murray is co-editor with Professor Allan Millet of On Military
Effectiveness, published by Allen and Unwin in 1988. Professor Murray has
also been a research associate at the Air War College, and visiting professor
at the United States Military Academy and at the Naval War College.
DAVID SYRETT was educated at Columbia University and the University
of London. Professor Syrett has been a member of the History
Department, Queens College, CUNY, since 1966. His major publications
include Shipping and the American War and The Siege and Capture of
Havana, 1762; The Lost War: Letters from British Officers during the
American Revolution; Neutral Rights and the War in the Narrow Seas,
1778-82. His articles have appeared in The William and Mary Quarterly,
The Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, The Journal of the
Society for Army Historical Research, New York History, The Mariner’s
Mirror, Military Review, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Armed Forces
and Society, The Naval War College Review, Military Intelligence, The
American Neptune, and Marine-Rundschau. During the academic year
1981-82 he was the John E Morrison Professor of Military History at the
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas.
JOE GRAY TAYLOR was Dean of Liberal Arts at McNeese State University,
Lake Charles, Louisiana, before his death in 1987. He received a
M.A. (1948) and Ph.D. (1951) in history from Louisiana State University.
During the Second World War, he flew seventy combat missions as a bom-
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