Title: Strike from the sky : the history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945 /
Authors: Hallion, Richard.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Close air support History.; Air interdiction History.; Close air support History; Air interdiction History
Contents: pt. 1. The First World War: The military and the airplane ; Ground attack on the Western Front, 1917-1918 ; The Palestine Campaign of 1918 ; Great War air support in retrospect -- pt. 2. Small conflcits of the interwar years: Emergent ground-attack doctrine and technology ; Small wars of the 1920s and 1930s -- pt. 3. Abyssinia, Spain, and war in Asia: The Abyssinian War ; The Spanish Civil War ; The Spanish legacy ; War in Asia -- pt. 4. The Second World War: The Blitzkrieg ; The genesis of Anglo-American air support : the British experience in the Western Desert ; The necessary interlude : doctrine and the AMerican experience in the Pacific, Tunisian, and Italian campaigns ; A deadly efficiency : Anglo-American air support in Western Europe ; Battlefied air support in the East : the case of Kursk -- Epilogue: Where we have come, where we are, where we are going.