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Author : Robert Frank Futrell
Release : 1961
Genre : Korean War, 1950-1953
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Book Synopsis The United States Air Force in Korea by : Robert Frank Futrell
Download or read book The United States Air Force in Korea written by Robert Frank Futrell. This book was released on 1961. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official U.S. Air Force history of the Korean War.
Author : Robert Frank Futrell
Release : 1983
Genre : Korean War, 1950-1953
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Book Synopsis The United States Air Force in Korea, 1950-1953 by : Robert Frank Futrell
Download or read book The United States Air Force in Korea, 1950-1953 written by Robert Frank Futrell. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Air Force Historical Research Agency. Organizational History Branch
Release : 2001
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The USAF in Korea by : United States. Air Force Historical Research Agency. Organizational History Branch
Download or read book The USAF in Korea written by United States. Air Force Historical Research Agency. Organizational History Branch. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States Air Force in Korea. Korean War Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Compiled by Organizational History Branch, Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency. Edited by A. Judy G. Endicott. Companion volume to "The USAF in Korea: A Chronology, 1950-1953." Provides information on the ten combat campaigns of the Korean War and gives an organizational view of tactical and support organizations carrying out combat operations. Locates organizations or elements of organizations at their stations in Korea during the war.
Author : Wayne Thompson
Release : 1997-07
Genre : Korean War, 1950-1953
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Book Synopsis Within Limits by : Wayne Thompson
Download or read book Within Limits written by Wayne Thompson. This book was released on 1997-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite American success in preventing the conquest of South Korea by communist North Korea, the Korean War of 1950-1953 did not satisfy Americans who expected the kind of total victory they had experienced in WW II. In Korea, the U.S. limited itself to conventional weapons. Even after communist China entered the war, Americans put China off-limits to conventional bombing as well as nuclear bombing. Operating within these limits, the U.S. Air Force helped to repel 2 invasions of South Korea while securing control of the skies so decisively that other U.N. forces could fight without fear of air attack.
Author : Conrad C. Crane
Release : 2000
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953 by : Conrad C. Crane
Download or read book American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953 written by Conrad C. Crane. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Korean War was the first armed engagement for the newly formed U.S. Air Force, but far from the type of conflict it expected or wanted to fight. As the first air war of the nuclear age, it posed a major challenge to the service to define and successfully carry out its mission by stretching the constraints of limited war while avoiding the excesses of total war. Conrad Crane analyzes both the successes and failures of the air force in Korea, offering a balanced treatment of how the air war in Korea actually unfolded. He examines the Air Force's contention that it could play a decisive role in a non-nuclear regional war but shows that the fledgling service was held to unrealistically high expectations based on airpower's performance in World War II, despite being constrained by the limited nature of the Korean conflict. Crane exposes the tensions and rivalries between services, showing that emphasis on strategic bombing came at the expense of air support for ground troops, and he tells how interactions between army and air force generals shaped the air force's mission and strategy. He also addresses misunderstandings about plans to use nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons in the war and includes new information from pilot correspondence about the informal policy of "hot pursuit" over the Yalu that existed at the end of the war. The book considers not only the actual air effort in Korea but also its ramifications. The air force doubled in size during the war and used that growth to secure its position in the defense establishment, but it wagered its future on its ability to deliver nuclear weapons in a high-intensity conflict—a position that left it unprepared to fight the next limited war in Vietnam. As America observes the fiftieth anniversary of its initial engagement in Korea, Crane's book is an important reminder of the lessons learned there. And as airpower continues to be a cornerstone of American defense, this examination of its uses in Korea provides new insights about the air force's capabilities and limitations.
