Timeline of Strategic Aviation
Sources
This bibliography is by no means a complete listing of the works I consult working on this timeline. Far too many sources have been lost over the years, and far too often the works I consult blur together in memory. In this sense, it seems better to simply list everything that has been useful rather than cherry-pick sources on the basis of value. Likewise, I have yet to completely catalog all of the works in my digital library. In due time, these will be added as well.
Chronologies & War Diaries:
33rd Statistical Control Unit. Twentieth Air Force Command & Staff Reference Book. Harmon Field, Guam: Twentieth Air Force Headquarters, 1 August 1945.
Caldwell, Donald. Day Fighters In Defense of the Reich – A War Diary, 1942-1945. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books, 2011.
Carter, Kit C., and Robert Mueller. The Army Air Forces in World War II: Combat Chronology, 1941-1945. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1973.
Freeman, Roger A., Alan Crouchman, and Vic Maslen. The Mighty Eighth War Diary. New York, NY: Jane’s Publishing, Inc., 1981.
Gansz, David M. The Fifteen Air Force War Diary. Verona, NJ: First Mountain Belgians, 2022.
Middlebrook, Martin, and Chris Everitt. The Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book, 1939-1945. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1985.
Warnock, A. Timothy. ed. The USAF in Korea: A Chronology, 1950-1953. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2000.
Primary Sources:
Ader, Clément. L’Aviation Militaire (Military Aviation). Translated by Lee Kennett. 1909. Reprint, Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2003.
Aviation Training Division, United States Navy. Aircrewman’s Gunnery Manual. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 1944.
Arnold, United States Army Air Corps, Major General Henry H., and Colonel Ira C. Eaker, United States Army Air Corps. Winged Warfare. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1941.
Arnold, United States Air Force (Retired), General of the Air Force Henry H. Global Mission. 1949. Reprint, Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Tab Books, 1989.
Boyd, United States Air Force, Major John R, Thomas P. Christie, and First Lieutenant James E. Gibson, United States Air Force. Energy-Maneuverability (U). Englin AFB, FL: Air Force Armament Laboratory, 15 January 1966.
Chennault, United States Army Air Forces (Retired), Major General Claire L. Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault. Edited by Robert Hotz. 1949. Reprint, Tucson, AZ: James Thorvardson & Sons, 1991.
de Seversky, United States Army Air Corps Reserves, Major Alexander N. P. Victory through Air Power. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1942.
–––. “Why Lindbergh Is Wrong.” American Mercury 52 (May 1941): pg 519-532.
Doolittle, Air Force Reserve Command (Retired), General James H., and Colonel Carroll V. Glines, United States Air Force (Retired). I Could Never Be So Lucky Again: An Autobiography. 1991. Reprint, Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 1995.
Douhet, Esercito Italiano, Brigadiere Generale Giulio. Il Dominio dell’Aria (The Command of the Air). Milan, IT: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1932.
Collection Includes:
Brigadiere Generale Giulio Douhet, EI. “Il Dominio dell’Aria,” Second Edition. Quaderni dell’Istituto Nazionale Fascista di Cultura (Journal of the National Institute of Fascist Culture), 1927.
–––. “Probabili Aspetti Della Guerra Futura” (Probable Aspects of a Future War). Quaderni dell’Istituto Nazionale Fascista di Cultura (Journal of the National Institute of Fascist Culture), 1928.
–––. “Riepilogando” (Recapitulation). Revista Aeronautica (Aeronautical Review), November 1929.
–––. “La Guerra de 19—” (The War of 1919—). Revista Aeronautica (Aeronautical Review), March 1930.
–––. Il Dominio dell’ Aria (The Command of the Air). Translated by Dino Ferrari. 1942. Reprint, Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1998.
Eisenhower, United States Army, General of the Army Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948.
Hansell, Jr., United States Air Force (Retired), Major General Haywood S. The Strategic Air War against Germany and Japan: A Memoir. USAF Warrior Studies. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1986.
Harris, Royal Air Force (Retired), Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur T. Bomber Offensive. 1947. Reprint, London, UK: Greenhill Books, 1990.
Hastings, United States Army Air Forces, Major Donald W., Captain David G. Wright, United States Army Air Forces, and Captain Bernard C. Glueck, United States Army Air Forces. Psychiatric Experiences of the Eighth Air Force. New York, NY: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1944.
Johnson, Air Force Reserve Command (Retired), Lieutenant Colonel Robert S., and Martin Caidin. Thunderbolt: An Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace. 1958. Reprint, Spartanburg, SC: Honoribus Press, 1999.
Jones, R. V. Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence, 1939-1945. London, UK: Hamish Hamilton, 1978.
Kenney, United States Air Force, General George C. General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War. 1949. Reprint, Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1997.
Kohn, Richard H., and Joseph P. Harahan, ed. Air Superiority in World War II and Korea: An Interview with Gen. James Ferguson, Gen. Robert M. Lee, Gen. William Momyer, and Lt. Gen. Elwood R. Quesada. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force
History, 1983.
–––, ed. Air Interdiction in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam: an Interview with Gen. Earl E. Partridge, Gen. Jacob E. Smart, and Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1986.
–––, ed. Strategic Air Warfare: An Interview with Generals Curtis E. LeMay, Leon W. Johnson, David A. Burchinal, and Jack J. Catton. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1988.
Lahm, United States Army Air Service, Colonel Frank P. The World War I Diary of COL Frank P. Lahm, Air Service, AEF. Edited by Albert F. Simpson. USAF Historical Study No. 141. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1970.
LeMay, United States Air Force (Retired), General Curtis E., and MacKinlay Kantor. Mission with LeMay: My Story. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965.
Mitchell, United States Army Air Service, Brigadier General William. Winged Defense: The Development and Possibilities of Modern Air Power – Economic and Military. New York, NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1925.
Momyer, United States Air Force (Retired), General William W. Air Power in Three Wars. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1978.
Moore, United States Air Force, Airman First Class Albert E., and Technical Sergeant Clarence W. Chute, United States Air Force. Claim For Enemy Aircraft Destroyed. U-Tapao RTNAF, TH: Headquarters 307th Strategic Wing, December
30, 1972.
Morgan, Air Force Reserve Command (Retired), Colonel Robert K., and Ron Powers. The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle. 2001. Reprint, New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2002.
Olds, United States Air Force (Retired), Brigadier General Robin, Christina Olds, and Ed Rasimus. Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2010.
Parton, James. “Air Force Spoken Here:” General Ira Eaker and the Command of the Air. Bethesda, MD: Adler & Adler, 1986.
Patton, Jr., United States Army, General George S. War as I Knew It. The Great Commanders. 1947. Reprint, Pennington, NJ: Collector’s Reprints, 1994.
–––. The Patton Papers: 1885-1940. Edited by Martin Blumenson. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1972.
–––. The Patton Papers: 1940-1945. Edited by Martin Blumenson. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
Sikorsky, Igor I. The Story of the Winged-S: An Autobiography. New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1938.
Speer, Albert. Erinnerungen (Recollections): Inside the Third Reich. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. New York NY: Macmillan, 1970.
Tibbets, Jr., United States Air Force (Retired), Brigadier General Paul W., Claire Stebbins, and Harry Franken. The Tibbets Story. Briarcliff Manor, NY: Stein and Day, 1978.
War Department. Field Manual (FM) 1-15: Tactics and Technique of Air Fighting. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1942.
–––. Field Manual (FM) 1-40: Intelligence Procedure in Aviation Units. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1940.
–––. Field Manual (FM) 100-20: Command and Employment of Air Power. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1943.
Yeager, United States Air Force (Retired), Brigadier General Chuck E., and Leo Janos. Yeager: An Autobiography. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1985.
Secondary Sources:
A Photographic Record of All Theaters of Action Chronologically Arranged. Pictorial History of the Second World War, vol. 1. New York, NY: William H. Wise, 1944.
A Photographic Record of All Theaters of Action Chronologically Arranged. Pictorial History of the Second World War, vol. 2. New York, NY: William H. Wise, 1944.
A Photographic Record of All Theaters of Action Chronologically Arranged. Pictorial History of the Second World War, vol. 3. New York, NY: William H. Wise, 1944.
A Photographic Record of All Theaters of Action Chronologically Arranged. Pictorial History of the Second World War, vol. 4. New York, NY: William H. Wise, 1946.
A Photographic Record of a Year of Victory with Special Sections on War Personalities, Weapons, and Great Battles Scenes. Pictorial History of the Second World War, vol. 5. New York, NY: William H. Wise, 1946.
Battlestations! Your Navy in Action. Pictorial History of the Second World War, vol. 6. New York, NY: William H. Wise, 1947.
Silsbee, United States Army Air Forces, Colonel Nathaniel F., ed. Bombs Away! Your Air Force in Action. Pictorial History of the Second World War, vol. 7. New York, NY: William H. Wise, 1947.
McCahill, United States Marine Corps, Major William P., ed. Hit the Beach! Your Marine Corps in Action. Pictorial History of the Second World War, vol. 8. New York, NY: William H. Wise, 1948.
Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943. The Liberation Trilogy, vol. 1. New York, NY: Henry Holt, 2002.
–––. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944. The Liberation Trilogy, vol. 2. New York, NY: Henry Holt, 2007.
–––. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945. The Liberation Trilogy, vol. 3. New York, NY: Henry Holt, 2013.
Benson, Lawrence R. Acquisition Management in the United States Air Force and its Predecessors. Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1997.
Bradley, James. Flyboys: A True Story of Courage. New York, NY: Little, Brown, 2003.
Caldwell, Donald, and Richard Müller. The Luftwaffe over Germany: Defense of the Reich. St. Paul, MN: Greenhill Books, 2007.
Castle, Ian. The First Blitz: Bombing London in the First World War. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2015.
Cherny, Andrei. The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s Finest Hour. New York, NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008.
Conder, Albert E., ed. The Men behind the Guns: The History of Enlisted Aerial Gunnery, 1917-1991. Air Force Gunners Association. Paducah, KY: Turner, 1994.
Craven, Wesley Frank, and James Lea Cate, ed. Plans and Early Operations: January 1939 to August 1942. Vol. 1 of The Army Air Forces in World War II. 1948. Reprint, Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1983.
–––, ed. TORCH to POINTBLANK: August 1942 to December 1943. Vol. 2 of The Army Air Forces in World War II. 1949. Reprint, Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1983.
–––, ed. Europe: ARGUMENT to V-E Day: January 1944 to May 1945. Vol. 3 of The Army Air Forces in World War II. 1951.
Reprint, Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1983.
–––, ed. The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan: August 1942 to July 1944. Vol. 4 of The Army Air Forces in World War II. 1950. Reprint, Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1983.
–––, ed. The Pacific: MATTERHORN to Nagasaki: June 1944 to August 1945. Vol. 5 of The Army Air Forces in World War II. 1953. Reprint, Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1983.
–––, ed. Men and Planes. Vol. 6 of The Army Air Forces in World War II. 1955. Reprint, Washington, DC: Office of Air Force
History, 1983.
–––, ed. Services Around the World. Vol. 7 of The Army Air Forces in World War II. 1958. Reprint, Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1983.
Davis, Richard G. Carl A. Spaatz and the Air War in Europe. Washington, DC: Center for Air Force History, 1993.
Deighton, Len. The Battle of Britain. London, UK: George Rainbird, Ltd., 1980.
Duffy, Paul, and Andrei Kandalov. Tupolev: The Man and His Aircraft. Warrendale, PA: Society of Automotive Engineers International, 1996.
Falconer, Jonathan. Stirling in Combat. Stroud, UK: Sutton, 2006.
Frank, Richard B. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. New York, NY: Random House, 1999.
Freeman, Roger A. The Mighty Eight: Units, Men, and Machines (A History of the US 8th Army Air Force). Artwork by John B. Rabbets. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970.
–––. The Mighty Eighth War Manual. Artwork by Norman Ottaway. New York, NY: Jane’s Publishing, Inc., 1984.
Futrell, Robert F. The United States Air Force In Korea, 1950-1953. Revised Edition. USAF Historical Study No. 131. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1983.
–––. United States Air Force Operations in the Korean Conflict, 25 June – 1 November 1950. USAF Historical Study No. 71. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1952.
–––. United States Air Force Operations in the Korean Conflict, 1 November 1950 – 30 June 1952. USAF Historical Study No. 72. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1953.
Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War, Revised and Expanded ed. New York NY: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Gordon, Yefim, and Vladimir Rigmant. Tupolev Tu-4: Soviet Superfortress. Translated by Sergey and Dmitry Komissarov. Red Star, vol. 7. Hinckley, UK: Midland Publishing, 2002.
Griehl, Manfred. Luftwaffe over America: The Secret Plans to Bomb the United States in World War II. Translated by Geoffrey Brooks. 2004. Reprint, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2006.
Hastings, Sir Max. Bomber Command: The Myths and Reality of the Strategic Bombing Offensive, 1939-1945. New York, NY: Dial Press/James Wade, 1979.
–––. Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
–––. The Korean War. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
–––. Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
–––. Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-1945. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
–––. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Holley, Jr., United States Army Air Force, Captain Irving B. Development Of Aircraft Gun Turrets In The AAF, 1917-1944. USAAF Historical Study No. 54. Washington, DC: AAF Historical Office, 1947.
Hurley, United States Air Force, Colonel Alfred H., and Major Robert C. Ehrhart, United States Air Force, ed. Air Power and Warfare: The Proceedings of the 8th Military History Symposium, United States Air Force Academy, 18-20 October 1978. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1979.
Jablonski, Edward. Flying Fortress: The Illustrated History of the B-17s and the Men Who Flew Them. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965.
Jenkins, Dennis R. Magnesium Overcast: The Story of the Convair B-36. 2001. Reprint, North Branch, MN: Specialty Press, 2005.
Keegan, Sir John. The Second World War. 1989. Reprint, Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2000.
–––. The First World War. 1998. Reprint, Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2000.
Lewis, W. David, and Wesley Phillips Newton. Delta: The History of an Airline. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1978.
Maurer, Maurer. USAF Credits For The Destruction of Enemy Aircraft, Korean War. USAF Historical Study No. 81. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1963.
–––, ed. The Final Report and A Tactical History. Vol. 1 of The US Air Service in World War I. USAF Historical Study No. 147. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1978.
–––, ed. Early Concepts of Military Aviation. Vol. 2 of The US Air Service in World War I. USAF Historical Study No. 147.
Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1978.
–––, ed. The Battle of St. Mihiel. Vol. 3 of The US Air Service in World War I. USAF Historical Study No. 147. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1979.
–––, ed. Postwar Review. Vol. 4 of The US Air Service in World War I. USAF Historical Study No. 147. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1979.
McGill, United States Air Force (Retired), Lieutenant Colonel Earl J. Black Tuesday over Namsi: A True History of the Epic Air Battle of the Korean War. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2008.
McGowan, Sam. “The Myth of the Tuskegee Airmen,” January 5, 2012, http://www.sammcgowan.com/332nd.html (accessed September 24, 2013).
McMaster, United States Army, Lieutenant Colonel H. R. Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1997.
Meilinger, United States Air Force, Colonel Phillip S. Airmen and Air Theory: A Review Of The Sources. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2001.
–––. “An Introduction to Airpower Theory.” Seminar III. Lecture 6. Northfield, VT: Norwich University, 2009.
–––. Bomber: The Formation and Early Years of Strategic Air Command. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2012.
–––, ed. The Paths of Heaven: The Evolution of Airpower Theory. 1997. Reprint, Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1998.
Collection Includes:
“Giulio Douhet & the Origins of Airpower Theory”
-Col Phillip S. Meilinger, USAF
“Trenchard, Slessor, and Royal Air Force Doctrine before World War II”
-Col Phillip S. Meilinger, USAF
“Molding Airpower Convictions: Development and Legacy of William Mitchell’s Strategic Thought”
-Lt Col Mark A. Clodfelter, USAF
“The Influence of Aviation on the Evolution of American Naval Thought”
-David R. Mets
“Airpower Thought in Continental Europe between the Wars”
-James S. Corum
“Interwar US Army Aviation and the Air Corps Tactical School: Incubators of American Air Power”
-Lt Col Peter R. Faber, USAF
“Alexander P. de Seversky and American Airpower”
-Col Phillip S. Meilinger, USAF
“Strategic Airpower and Nuclear Strategy: New Theory for a Not-Quite-So-New Apocalypse”
-Karl P. Mueller
“Air Theory, Air Force, and Low Intensity Conflict: A Short Journey to Confusion”
-Dennis M. Drew
“John Boyd and John Warden: Airpower’s Quest for Strategic Paralysis”
-Lt Col David S. Fadok, USAF
“An Ambivalent Partnership: US Army and Air Force Perspectives on Air-Ground Operations, 1973-90”
-Harold R. Winton
“The Evolution of NATO Air-Doctrine”
-Col Morris “Buster” McCrabb, USAF
“Soviet Military Doctrine and Air Theory: Change Through the Light of a Storm”
-Lt Col Edward J. Felker, USAF
“Ascendant Realms: Characteristics of Airpower and Space Power”
-Maj Bruce M. DeBlois, USAF
“Reflections on the Search for Airpower Theory”
-Irving B. Holley, Jr.
–––. “Trenchard and ‘Morale Bombing’: The Evolution of Royal Air Force Doctrine Before World War II.” Journal Of Military History 60, no. 2 (April 1996): pg 243-270.
Millet, Alan R., and Peter Maslowski. From the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America. 1984. Revised, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Millet Alan R., and Williamson Murray, ed. Military Innovation in the Interwar Period. 1996. Reprint, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Moyar, Mark. Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965. 2006. Reprint, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Murray, Williamson. Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe, 1933-1945. 1983. Reprint, Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2000.
Nalty, Bernard C. Air Power and the Fight for Khe Sanh. Special Studies. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1986.
–––. Air War over South Vietnam, 1968-1975. Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2000.
Newton, Jr., Wesley P., Calvin F. Senning, Colonel Benjamin B. Williams, Air Force Reserve Command, Lieutenant Colonel Forrest B. Dowdy, Air Force Reserve Command, Colonel Alfred W. Goldthwaite, Air Force Reserve Command, Lieutenant Colonel Leigh Maier, Air Force Reserve Command (Retired), Major Donald B. Dodd, Air Force Reserve Command. USAAF Credits for the Destruction of Enemy Aircraft, World War II. USAF Historical Study, No. 85. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1978.
Palmer, United States Army Medical Corps, Major Allan. Wound Ballistics: Chaper IX – Survey of Battle Casualties, Eighth Air Force, June, July, and August 1944. Washington, DC: Office of the Surgeon General, 1962.
Paret, Peter, Gordon A. Craig, and Felix Gilbert, ed. Makers of Modern Strategy: from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Collection Includes:
“Machiavelli: The Renaissance of the Art of War”
-Felix Gilbert
“Maurice of Nassau, Gustavus Adolphus, Raimondo Montecuccoli, and the ‘Military Revolution’ of the Seventeenth Century”
-Gunther E. Rothenberg
“Vauban: The Impact of Science on War”
-Henry Guerlac
“Frederick the Great, Guibert, Bülow: From Dynastic to National War”
-R. R. Palmer
“Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List: The Economic Foundations of Military Power”
-Edward Mead Earle
“Engels and Marx on Revolution, War, and the Army in Society”
-Sigmund Neumann and Mark von Hagen
“The Prusso-German School: Moltke and the Rise of the General Staff”
-Hajo Holborn
“Moltke, Schlieffen, and the Doctrine of Strategic Envelopment”
-Gunther E. Rothenberg
“Delbrück: The Military Historian”
-Gordon A. Craig
“Russian Military Thought: The Western Model and the Shadow of Suvorov”
-Walter Pinter
“Bugead, Galliéni, Lyautey: The Development of French Colonial Warfare”
-Douglas Porch
“American Strategy from Its Beginnings through the First World War”
-Russell F. Weigley
“Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Naval Historian”
-Philip A. Crowl
“The Political Leader as Strategist”
-Gordon A. Craig
“Men against Fire: The Doctrine of the Offensive in 1914”
-Sir Michael Howard
“German Strategy in the Age of Machine Warfare, 1914-1945”
-Michael Geyer
“Liddell Hard and De Gaulle: The Doctrines of Limited Liability and Mobile Defense”
-Brian Bond and Michael Alexander
“Voices from the Central Blue: The Air Power Theorists”
-Lt Col David MacIsaac, USAF (Ret.)
“The Making of Soviet Strategy”
-Condoleezza Rice
“Allied Strategy in Europe, 1939-1945”
-Maurice Matloff
“American and Japanese Strategies in the Pacific War”
-D. Clayton James
“The First Two Generations of Nuclear Strategists”
-Sir Lawrence Freedman
“Conventional Warfare in the Nuclear Age”
-Field Marshal Lord Michael Carver, BA (Ret.)
“Revolutionary War”
-John Shy and LTC Thomas W. Collier, USA (Ret.)
“Reflections on Strategy in the Present and Future”
-Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert
Price, Alfred. Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare, 1939-1945. 1967. Reprint, Yorkshire, UK: Frontline Books, 2017.
Provan, John, and Ronald E. G. Davies. Berlin Airlift: The Effort and the Aircraft. Artwork by Mike Machat. McLean, VA: Paladwr Press, 1998.
Ravenstein, Charles A. US Air Force Combat Victory Credits, Southeast Asia. USAF Historical Study No. 145. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1974.
Russell, Edward T., and Robert M. Johnson. Africa to the Alps: The Army Air Forces in the Mediterranean Theater. Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1999.
Schultz, Duane. Into the Fire: Ploesti: The Most Fateful Mission of World War II. Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2007.
Stoff, Michael B., Jonathan F. Fanton, and R. Hal Williams, ed. The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age. 1991. Reprint, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Strachan, Hew. The First World War. 2004. Reprint, New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2013.
Tate, James P. The Army and Its Air Corps: Army Policy toward Aviation, 1919-1941. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1998.
Thompson, Wayne, ed. Air Leadership: Proceedings of a Conference at Bolling Air Force Base, April 13-14, 1984. USAF Warrior Studies. Edited by Richard H. Kohn and Joseph P. Harahan. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1986.
Waller, Douglas. A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court Martial That Gripped the Nation. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2004.
Warnock, A. Timothy. Air Power versus U-boats: Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace in the European Theater. Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1999.
Wildenberg, Thomas. Billy Mitchell’s War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2014.
Williams, E. Kathleen. Army Forces in the War against Japan: 1941-1942. Army Air Forces Historical Studies No. 34. Washington, DC: USAAF Historical Division, 1945.
Wolf, William. Consolidated B-32 Dominator – Ultimate Look: From Drawing Board to Scrapyard. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2006.
United States Strategic Bombing Surveys: (40 out of 316)
United States Strategic Bombing Survey. Over-all Report (European War). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1945.
––– (Aircraft Division). Aichi Aircraft Company (Aichi Kokuki K K): Corporation Report No. V (Airframes and Engines). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947.
––– (Aircraft Division). Army Air Arsenal and Navy Air Depots: Corporation Report No. XIX (Airframes and Engines). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947.
––– (Aircraft Division). Fuji Airplane Company (Fuji Hikoki K K): Corporation Report No. XI (Airframes). Washington, DC:
Government Printing Office, 1946.
––– (Aircraft Division). Hitachi Aircraft Company (Hitachi Kokuki KK): Corporation Report No. VII (Airframes and Engines). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947.
––– (Aircraft Division). Ishikawajima Aircraft Industries Company, Ltd. (Ishikawajima Koku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha): Corporation Report No. XIII (Engines). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1946.
––– (Aircraft Division). Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company (Nippon Gakki Seizo K K): Corporation Report No. IX. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1946.
––– (Aircraft Division). The Japanese Aircraft Industry. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947.
––– (Aircraft Division). Kawanishi Aircraft Co. (Kawanishi Kokuki Kabushiki Kaisha): Corporation Report No. III (Air Frames). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947.
––– (Aircraft Division). Kawasaki Aircraft Industries Company, Inc. (Kawasaki Kokuki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha): Corporation Report No. IV (Air Frames and Engines). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947.
––– (Aircraft Division). Kyushu Airplane Company (Kyushu Hikoki K K): Corporation Report No. XV (Airframes). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947.
––– (Aircraft Division). Mitaka Aircraft Industries (Mitaka Koku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha): Corporation Report No. XVII
(Components). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947.
––– (Aircraft Division). Nissan Automobile Company (Nissan Jidosha K K): Corporation Report No. XVIII (Engines). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1946.
––– (Aircraft Division). Shoda Engineering Company (Shoda Seisakujo): Corporation Report No. XVI (Components). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1946.
––– (Aircraft Division). Showa Airplane Company (Showa Hikoki Kogyo K K): Corporation Report No. XII (Airframes).
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1946.
––– (Aircraft Division). Sumitomo Metal Industries, Propeller Division (Sumitomo Kinzoku Kogyo K K, Puropera Seizosho): Corporation Report No. VI (Propellers). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1946.
––– (Aircraft Division). Tachikawa Aircraft Company (Tachikawa Hikoki K K): Corporation Report No. X (Airframes). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947.
––– (Aircraft Division). Underground Production Of Japanese Aircraft: Report No. XX. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947.
––– (Basic Materials Division). Coals and Metals in Japan’s War Economy. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947.
––– (Chairman’s Office). The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1946.
––– (Chairman’s Office). Japan’s Struggle to End the War. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1946.
––– (Chairman’s Office). Summary Report (Pacific War). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1946.
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