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

AIR SUPERIORITY
bardier-navigator with the 81st Bomb Squadron, 12th Bomb Group, Tenth
Air Force, in the China-Burma-India Theater. He is the author of five Air
Force Historical Studies, including Close Air Support in the War Against
Japan and Air Supply in the Burma Campaigns. He has published articles
in Air Force History and Military Affairs. Among numerous works on nonmilitary
history, he has published Louisiana: A Bicentennial History and
Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South: An Informal History.
KENNETH R. WHITING, retired Chief of the Documentary
Research Division, Center of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education,
at the Air University, is a renowned Sovietologist. He received his
Ph.D. in Russian history from Harvard University in 1951 and has contributed
numerous articles and studies on Soviet and Chinese affairs to a variety
of publications. Among works of relevance to his essay in this volume
are The Chinese Communist Armed Forces; The Development of the Soviet
Armed Forces, 1917-1972; Soviet Air Power, 1917-1976; and “Soviet Aviation
and Air Power under Stalin, 1928-1941,” in Robin Higham and Jacob
W. Kipp, editors, Soviet Aviation and Air Power: A Historical View.
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