Help From Above
Subtitle: Air Force Close Air Support Of The Army 1946-1973
By: John Schlight
Contributors: Air Force History and Museums Program (U.S.)
Publisher: Air Force History and Museums Program; [Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., distributor]
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
Subjects: United States. -- Air Force -- History -- 20th century; United States. -- Army -- Aviation -- History -- 20th century; Close air support -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Shipping list no.: 2004-0131-P

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Foreword iii; title: Photographs vii; title: Introduction xi; title: 1 The Birth of Close Air Support 1; title: World War I 2; title: Between the Wars 19; title: World War II 32; title: 2 Close Air Support Enfeebled 1945-1950 53; title: On the Road to Independence 54; title: Independence 72; title: Reduction of Tactical Air Command 83; title: Congress and Close Air Support 95; title: Further Attempts to Improve Air-Ground Operations 98; title: 3 Close Air Support in Korea 113; title: The War in Outline 114; title: The Close Air Support System in Korea 141; title: The Demand Side: The Air-Ground Operations System 142; title: The Supply Side: The Tactical Air Control System 145; title: The Joint Operations Center 145; title: Tactical Air Control Parties 149; title: Mosquitoes 151; title: Aircraft Issues 153; title: The Bottom Line: Command and Control 159; title: 4 Close Air Support Under the New Look 179; title: The Services, The New Look, and Close Air Support 182; title: Further Attempts to Create Joint Air-Ground Doctrine 201; title: The Close Air Support Challenge from Organic Army Aviation 221; title: 5 Close Air Support and Flexible Response: 1960-1965 233; title: Early Stirrings of a Close Air Support Revival, 1961-1963 236; title: The Army Proposes Its Own Airmobile Force: The Howze Board 242; title: The Air Force Defends the Existing System: The Disosway Board 251; title: A Joint Examination of Close Air Support 257; title: Field Testing the Opposing Close Air Support Concepts 279; title: 6 The Vietnam Era: 1965-1973 299; title: Air Force Close Air Support Validated in Vietnam 301; title: Armed Helicopters Also Legitimized 335; title: Toward a Specialized Close Air Support Plane 352; title: 7 Conclusions 365; title: Notes 385; title: Glossary 415; title: Bibliography 419; title: Index 447; title: Figures; title: 1. St. Mihiel, September 12-16, 1918 16; title: 2. Curtiss A-12 Shrike 25; title: 3. Details of Target Selection 30; title: 4 . Approximate Location of Targets 31; title: 5. Cover of Aviation in Support of Ground Forces 34; title: 6. Air-Ground Operations, August 1946 59; title: 7. Far East Command, June-August 1950 116; title: 8. Korea 119; title: 9. FEAF Sorties, June 26, 1950-July 27, 1953 134; title: 10. General Almond's Proposed Organization for Close Air Support 170; title: 11. Joint Air-Ground Operations, Immediate Air Request System, September 1, 1957 214; title: 12. Joint Air-Ground Operations, Preplanned Air Request System, September 1, 1957 215; title: 13. Air Force General Purpose Forces, FY 1961-1965 239; title: 14. Organization of the 1 1th Air Assault Division, 1963-1964 291; title: 15. Joint Air-Ground Operations System 307; title: 16. Major Battles and Significant Localities, Vietnam 321; title: 17. 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) Organization 340; title: 18. 1st Aviation Brigade Organization, August 1, 1968 344; title: Photographs; title: An F-l 1 IF releasing high drag bombs over a range xvi; title: Gen. John J. Pershing addressing Air Service personnel at Tours, France on July, 29, 1918 (top); Maj. Gen. Hugh A. Drum (right); Gen. William Mitchell in cockpit at Selfridge Field Michigan during Daytona races in 1922 (bottom) 4; title: British De Haviland DH-4 observation plane (top left); British Handley-Page bomber (top right); Italian Caproni A-12 bomber (center); French Brequet bomber (bottom left); French Spad 13E fighters in formation (bottom right) 8; title: Lt. Benjamin D. Foulois in the first aircraft owned by the U.S. Army, a Wright type B, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas 13; title: German Junkers all metal monoplane (top); German Halberstadt (center); British Sopwith Camel (bottom) 17; title: A presentation ceremony on April 16, 1920, at Kelly Field Texas (top); Air Corps machine shops at Barksdale Field Louisiana (bottom) 23; title: Silhouettes of a Curtiss A-3 (left); Curtiss XA-8 (top) 26; title: A Curtiss Y1A-18 (top); A Douglas A-20 (bottom) 27; title: Lt. Henry H. Arnold in Wright B aircraft at College Park, Maryland in 1911 (bottom); Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff in 1939 (right) 33; title: A Consolidated F-7A reconnaissance aircraft 36; title: Boeing F-9 reconnaissance aircraft (top); Lockheed F-5 reconnaissance aircraft (center); North American F-6 reconnaissance aircraft (far right) 37; title: Curtiss C-16 cargo and troop carrying transport (top left); Douglas C-17s on line (top right); Douglas C-54 over Mt. Whitney, California (center); Douglas C-54 interior (bottom left); Fairchild XC-82 (bottom right) 39; title: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower congratulates Lt. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz on being awarded the Legion of Merit on September 16, 1943 (left); Lt. Gen. Elwood R. Quesada (right) 56; title: Langley Field Virginia (top); March Field Riverside, California (bottom) 63; title: A Douglas A-26C at Lawson AFB, Georgia, February 26, 1947 64; title: View of the Capitol building from a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star 65; title: A 20-mm cannon installed in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. 68; title: A Northrop P-61 Night Fighter 69; title: Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker 76; title: Col. William W. Momyer 80; title: Gen. Carl A. Spaatz 85; title: Maj. Gen. Richard E. Nugent (left); Maj. Gen. Robert M. Lee (right) 89; title: Lt. Gen. Glenn O. Barcus 100; title: Construction at Wright-Patterson Field Dayton, Ohio in 1941 102; title: Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer 115; title: An air reconnaissance photo 121; title: Lt. Gen. Otto P. Weyland (left) and Lt. Gen. Earle E. Partridge (right) 125; title: A Boeing B-29 after a mission over North Korea 127; title: Enemy fuel truck hit by F-5 1 east of Kumchon (top); F-80 attacks on North Korean tanks. Photo taken by gun camera (bottom) 128; title: Brig. Gen. James Ferguson 147; title: A Stimson L-5, over Korea 152; title: A North American T-6 153; title: Napalm bombs being assembled (top); napalm being dropped from a Lockheed P-80, at Eglin Field, Florida (bottom) 156; title: A Soviet MIG-15 Fagot 157; title: A North American XF-86 158; title: An F-100 Sabre 45 (top); A Martin B-57A Night Intruder (bottom) 183; title: An illustration of a Douglas B-66A 185; title: A drawing of an F-101A showing a portion of the cockpit interior 188; title: A McDonnell F-101A 189; title: A Cessna XL-19B, the world's first turbine-powered light aircraft 193; title: Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg 198; title: Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay 235; title: Brig. Gen. Gabriel P. Disosway 253; title: A German Fieseler Fi— 156 (top); A German Junkers Ju-87 (bottom) 268; title: A British Westland Lysander in France (top); A French Mureaux 115-R.2 (bottom) 269; title: Col. Gilbert L. Meyers 282; title: An F-l 1 IF refueling from a KC-135E Stratotanker 289; title: Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert 295; title: Maj. Gen. Ernest Moore 305; title: A B-52 bomber. 309; title: The F-4E Phantom II 312; title: Several F~4D Phantom lis taxi on a runway with their drogue chutes extended 313; title: An A-7K Corsair II flying with an A-7D Corsair II (top) and an A-37 Dragonfly (bottom) 314; title: An OV-10 Bronco 319; title: A Fairchild C-123 transport 322; title: A Marine with an M-16 rifle 329; title: An XM-198 155-mm howitzer 330; title: A drawing of a Lockheed C-130 333; title: A Soviet 7.62-mm AK-47 assault rifle 347; title: A Soviet-made ZU-23 23-mm antiaircraft gun 348; title: A Soviet-made M-1939 37-mm antiaircraft gun 349; title: An A-56A Cheyenne attack helicopter, Fort Polk, Louisiana 355; title: An A-10 Thunderbolt II during an exercise (top) and an A-10; title: Thunderbolt II firing a GAU-8/A 30-mm cannon (bottom) 361; title: A UH-1H Iroquois during a training flight 377; title: Crewman mans an M-60 machine gun on an Iroquois helicopter 382