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290 ai r p o w e r in 20 t H Ce n t u ry do C t r i n e s a n d em p l o y m e n t - nat i o n a l ex p e r i e n C e s Concluding remarks The main objective of 2 Sqn in Korea was interdiction – to isolate the battlefield from the sources of supply, while their main threat came from enemy ground fire. In general South African pilots displayed a professional approach, a high level of mutual loyalty, a willingness to assist comrades and team spirit, as the various examples illustrated. The Squadron certainly showed much tenacity, persistence and courage in performing their operational duties with pilots frequently flying three or even more missions in one day. The SAAF has a long and proud history, a history that showed commitment and service, despite ever changing times. The example of Korea showed the SAAF as a highly innovative and adoptable force with a good operational track record. With the renewal of equipment, serious efforts to maintain the professional approach of the service and live up to standards, it is truly entering a new era and will continue to serve the country as called upon.
La r s er i c s o n Wo L k e * Svezia Douhet or not Douhet. Swedish Air Power Doctrine in the 1930´s and 1940´s In 1911, the year of the first Italian use of Air strikes in Libya, the Swedish army got it´s first planes and a year later the army followed. 1 However, it was not until 1926, that a unified Swedish Air Force was created by the army and navy air branches. The new arm, although weak in number, in the following years around 1930 developed an operational doctrine that could be described as douhetism 2 , although Douhet himself wasn´t translated to Swedish. However, when the German Luftherrschaft arrived in 1935 3 , his thoughts were opened also for Swedish readers. Most Swedish officers, as well as civilians, knew German as their first foreign language. The decade between 1934 and 1945 was probably one of the most important decades in the history of the Swedish Air Force. Now it developed it´s doctrine 4 , it operational and tactical skills as well as went through an unprecedented enlargement. In 1934 the Air Force got a new Commander-in-Chief, Torsten Friis, who already during World War One had studiedthe Air units used by the Austro-Hungarian Army at the Russian and Serbian fronts. 5 The new Commander-in-Chief already from his first year in officer was keen on a close co-operation between the * Professor in military history at the National Defence College, Stockholm and member of the Board of the Commission Internationale d´Histoire Militaire. 1 For the Swedish reaction upon the Italian use of Air planes in 1911 see Lars Ericson Wolke, “Bomba och bränn dom.” Taktik och terror under 100 år av flygkrig (In Swedish: ”Bomb and Burn them.” Tactic and Terror during 100 years of Air Warfare) , Lund 2009 pp. 20-24. 2 For the early development of Air Doctrines for the Army and Navy see Klaus-Richard Böhme, Svensk luftförsvarsdoktrin 1919 till 1938 (In Swedish: Swedish Air defence doctrine 1919 to 1938), in Aktuellt och Historiskt. Meddelanden från Militärhistoriska avdelningen vid Kungl Militärhögskolan 1973, Stockholm 1973 pp. 129-172. The first Air doctrines are seen in a broader Swedish and international perspective in Lars Ericson Wolke, Krigets idéer. Svenska tankar om krigföring 1320-1920 (In Swedish: The Ideas of War. Swedish thought about Warfare, 1320-1920), Stockholm 2007 pp. 310-316. 3 Giulio Douhet, Luftherrschaft, Berlin 1935. 4 Another study of the development of Swedish Air doctrine during the 1930´s and 1940´s is, with extensive archival references, published in English in Lars Ericson (Wolke), The Swedish Air Force and the Question of Doctrine, 1934-1945, in Klaus-R Böhme/Carl Linton, eds., Air Power. Doctrine and Technology. Linköping 14-16 August 1996. Proceedings, Stockholm/Linköping 1996 pp. 35-47. 5 Torsten Friis and the Air Force is studied in Lars Ericson (Wolke), Torsten Friis, in Gunnar Artéus, ed., Svenska officersprofiler under 1900-talet (In Swedish: Swedish Officer profiles during the 20 th Century) , Stockholm 1996 pp. 154-176.
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