Title: Training to fly : military flight training, 1907-1945 /
Authors: Cameron, Rebecca Hancock.; Air Force History and Museums Program (U.S.)
Publisher: Air Force History and Museums Program : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs.,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Air pilots, Military Training of United States History.; Flight crews Training of United States History.; Flight training United States History.
Abstract: Military Flight training, 1907-1945.
Contents: pt. I. The first decade, 1907-1917. Beginnings: Men and machines ; The Signal Corps aviation school ; Prelude to war: reform, operational training, preparedness. -- pt. II. The end of illusions. Training at home for war overseas ; Air service, American Expeditionary Forces. -- pt. III. Peace. Postwar retrenchment ; Boom and bust: the Air Corps years ; Training an Air Force: the GHQ era. -- pt. IV. Rearming, 1939-1941. Individual pilot and aircrew training ; Operational training. -- pt. V. Training for war: planning, procuring, organizing. Picking the men, training the pilots ; Not just a pilot's war: individual training of navigators, bombardiers, and gunners ; Crew and unit training: organization, technology, and doctrine ; Training for strategic bombardment ; Crew and unit training for the tactical Air Forces ; An end and a beginning. -- Appendices: Accident statistics of the interwar period ; Army Air Forces Training Command and its predecessor Flying Training Commands ; Major changes in undergraduate pilot training, July 1939-January 1943 ; Flying training graduates, July 1939-August 1945 ; Location and supervision of pilot and bombardier training, July 1940 ; Bombardier requirements in relation to the group and pilot programs.