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

AIR SUPERIORITY
Notes
1. On early predictions on the future of air warfare, see H. G. Wells, War in the Air (New
York, 1908). especially pp 167-208; R. P. Hearne, Aerial Warfare (London and New York,
1909), pp 136-37, 169; and Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper, The Aeroplane in War
(London, 1912), pp 208-09. Zepplin quoted in Lee Kennett, A History of Strategic Bombing
(New York, 1982), p 9.
2. Chronology of Air Force History to 1939, drawn principally from “Outline of the
Development of Military Aviation in the United States,” RG 18, MMB, NA; Historical
Documentation of Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, K 239.05122-766 (3-926-38), p 44,
U.S. Air Force Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, Ala. (AFHRC).
3. Trenchard quoted in William Mitchell, Memoirs of World War I (New York, 1960 ed),
p 105; Walter Raleigh and H. A. Jones, The War in the Air (London, 1922-1936). vol2, pp
235-36; C. H. Hildreth and Bernard C. Nalty, 1001 Questions Answered About Aviation History
(New York, 1969). p 109; Charles D. Bright, “Air Power in World War I: Sideshow or
Decisive Factor?” Aerospace Historian 18 (Jun 1971). pp 58-62.
4. Technology, doctrine, and weapons development can be explored in Richard P. Hallion,
Rise ofthe Fighter Aircraft, 1914-1918 (Annapolis, 1984). chaps 11, VI, IX; I. B. Holley,
Jr., Ideas and Weapons (Washington, 1983 ed), esp part 11; John H. Morrow, Jr., German Air
Power in World War I (London, 1982), chap 3.
5. Hallion, Fighter Aircraft. chap IV.
6. Geoffrey Rossano, “The Apprenticeship: How the Allies Trained the American Air
Service,” Journal of American Aviation Historical Society 28 (Spring 1983), pp 22-31. esp
p 30.
7. Cyril Falls, The Great War (New York, 1959), pp 181-82, 264-65; R. A. Mason, “The
British Dimension,” in Alfred F. Hurley and Robert C. Ehrhart, eds, Air Power and Warfare:
The Proceedings of the Eighth Military History Symposium, United States Air Force Academy,
18-20 October 1978 (Washington, 1979), p 29.
8. Raleigh and Jones, War in the Air, I, pp 6, 418-19, 473; Andrew Boyle, Trenchard
(New York, 1962). pp 184-89,219; Sir Charles Webster and Noble Frankland, The Strategic
Air Offensive Against Germany, 1939-1945 [History of the Second World War] (London,
1961), pp 37-38,40.
9. Smuts quoted in Dudley Saward, Bomber Harris: The Story of Sir Arthur Harris,
Marshal of the Royal Air Force (Garden City, 1985). pp 18-19.
10. Maurer Maurer, ed, The U.S. Air Service in World War I (Washington, 1978). vol I,
append A, p 343.
11. On Mitchell, see his paper, “General Principles Underlying the Use of the Air Service
in the Zone of the Advance A.E.F.,” Bulletin of the Information Section, Air Service
AEF 3, (April 30, 1918). p 132; Churchill, Parker, and the corporate board thinking can be
followed in Maurer, ed, Air Service, vol 11, pp 107-23.
12. Lawrence Kuter, “Air Power-The American Concept” (c. 1943), photostat of
typescript, 167.6-50, AFHRC; Gorrell’s plan in Maurer, ed, Air Service, vol 11, pp 141-57;
see also Robert Frank Futrell, Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine: A History of Basic Thinking in the
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