Military Aviation in the Gulf South: A Photographic History

ISBN-13: 9780807164112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 160 str.

Vincent P. Caire

Opis

In 1914, the U.S. Navy established its first air base in Pensacola, Florida, and two years later, the U.S. Army conducted the first combat flights in American history after using the Gulf Coast region of Texas as a training area. In the decades that followed, the Gulf South welcomed over two hundred military air stations, and by the close of the twentieth century these installations had fostered critical advances in pilot training, producing many of the most acclaimed military personnel to take to the skies. Vincent P. Caire s authoritative and inspiring photographic survey recognizes Gulf South aviation heroes like Brig. Gen. Claire Chennault and honors the role of key southern military stations like Eglin and Maxwell Air Force bases."