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29. Maj Earl L. Naiden, Sept 17, 1929, to G-3 Course 6, Army War College, File 363-
A-6, Army War College Curricular Files, MHI; Kuter intvw, pp 5,7,9, 10, 14.
30. Intvw, Dr. Richard H. Kohn and Hugh N. Ahmann with Gen Bernard A. Schriever,
Jun 14, 1985, p 5, as part of Senior Statesmen Conference Intvw, AFCHO Draft Mss.
31. Camille Rougeron, L’aviation de bombardment, (Paris, 1937 ed), vol 1, p 117; also,
Hurley and Ehrhart, eds, Air Power and Warfare, sect 11.
32. On the Italian air force in the Mussolini era, see Giorgio Apostolo and Andrea Curami,
“The ltalian Air Force, 1919 to 1923,” pp 257-68; Andrea Curami and Giorgio Apostolo,
“The Italian Aviation from 1923 to 1933,” pp 269-80; and Giancarlo Garello, “The Air Force
During the Italian Fascism,” pp 281-92, all Carlier, ed, Colloque 1984. An important recent
discussion appears in James J. Sadkovich, “The Development of the Italian Air Force Prior
to World War 11,” Military Affairs 51, (July 1987). pp 128-36.
33. U.S. Army Air Forces Historical Office, Comparative History of Research and
Development Policies Affecting Air Materiel, 1915-1944, [AAF Historical Study 201, (Washington,
1945), pp 154-56, 162-63; Wesley Frank Craven and James Lee Cate, eds, The Army
Air Forces in World War 11, Vol I: Plans and Early Operations (Chicago, 1949; reprint, Office
of Air Force History, 1983), pp 82-85.
34. U.S. Air Force Historical Study 20, pp 162, 163; Segre, “Douhet in Italy,” pp 78-79;
William L. Shirer, The Collapse of the Third Republic (New York, 1969). p 376; Basil Collier,
A History of Air Power (New York, 1974). p 92.
35. Pttain quoted in Shirer, Collapse, p 174.
36. Robert J. Young, “The Strategic Dream: French Air Doctrine in the Inter-War
Period, 1919-39,” Journal of Contemporary History 9 (Oct 1974). pp 63-64; General D’ Astier
de la Vigerie, Le ciel n’ttait pas vide, 1940 (Paris, 1952). p 23; Shirer, Collapse, pp 174, 179,
274, 389; M. Ribet, Le Proces de Riom (Paris, 1945), p 461‘AAF Historical Office, History
of Research and Development Policies, pp 175-78; Anthony Robinson, ed, Aerial Warfare
(London, 1982), p 152.
37. Faris R. Kirkland, “The French Air Force in 1940: Was it Defeated by the Luftwaffe
or by Politics?” Air University Review XXXVI (Sept-Oct 1985). pp 102-03; Claude Carlier,
Le Development de I’ Aeronautique Militaire Franqaise de 1958 d 1970, (Vincennes, May
1976), p 6; Martin Alexander, “Force de Frappe ou Feu de PaillC? Maurice Gamelin’s
Appraisal of Military Aviation Before the Blitzkrieg of 1940,” in Carlier, ed, Colloque 1984,
pp 65-80; Young, “French Air Doctrine,” pp 67-75.
38. Kirkland, “French Air Force,” pp 102-07; Bill Gunston, The Encyclopedia of the
World’s Combat Aircraft (New York, 1976). pp 12, 22, 31, 46-47, 129, 143, 167, 181; John
Batchelor and Bryan Cooper, Fighter:A History of Fighter Aircraft (New York, 1973). p 71.
39. Kirkland, “French Air Force,” pp 103-05.
40. Ibid., pp 105, 108; also Alexander, “Force de Frappe,” pp 67-68.
41. Kirkland, “French Air Force,” p 108.
42. D’ Astier de la Vigerie, Le ciel n’ttait pas vide, 1940; Kirkland “French Air Force,”
pp 102-03; see also General Christienne, “L‘industrie aeronautique francaise de septembre
1939 A juin 1940,” pp 141-65; P. Buffotot, “Le moral dans I’ArmCe de I’Air francaise (de
septembre 1939 a juin 1940);’ pp 167-95; and P. Buffotot and J. Ogier, “L‘ArmBe de I’Air
pendant la bataille de France (du 10 mai a I’armistice): Essai de bilan numerique d’une
bataille aerienne,” pp 197-226, all in Service Historique de I’ArmCe de I’Air, Recueil d’articles
et etudes (1974-75) (Vincennes, 1977).
43. Kirkland, “French Air Force,” p 116.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid., pp 109-15.
46. In addition to Ibid., 115, see R. J. Overy, The Air War 1939-1945 (London, 1980). pp
26-30.
47. S. A. Tyushkevich, The Soviet Armed Forces: A History of their Organizational
Development (Moscow, 1978), pt. 11; Neil M. Heyman, “NEP and the Industrialization to
1928,” Kenneth R. Whiting, “Soviet Aviation and Air Power under Stalin, 1928-1941,” and
John T. Greenwood, “The Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945,” in Robin Higham and Jacob
Kipp, eds, Soviet Aviation and Air Power: A Historical View (Boulder, Col., 1977), chaps 3,
4,5.
48. A. S. Yakovlev, Fifty Years of Soviet Aircraft Construction (Moscow, 1970), p 4;
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