Air Power History back issues from March 2007:
From the editor.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Every year it seems marks an historic milestone. All this is to the good because it affords us an opportunity not only to commemorate some momentous event, but also to reflect on the past. The year 2007 provides a bonus, with several anniversaries. Most airmen know the obvious Sixtieth ...
A very high road; a B-36 gunner's story.(military aircraft)(Cover story)
Mar 22, 2007; ... God, it was big! No, that's wrong. It was enormous! I stood beneath what I thought was the nose entrance hatch. It was the hatch to the radio compartment. What did I know? I looked back toward the tail and all I could see was a wing. It could have been measured in acres or time zones ....
A day on Northern watch: November 2, 2000.
Mar 22, 2007; ... Northern Watch was a combined US., UK, and Turkish operation to enforce a no-fly zone in Iraq above the 36th parallel. Begun on January 1, 1997, it involved forty-five coalition aircraft and was expected to last for about six months. However, repeated extensions saw the operation continue ...
Strategic Air Command's B-29s during the Berlin Airlift.
Mar 22, 2007; ... When the Berlin Blockade began in late June 1948, one B-29 squadron of Strategic Air Command's (SAC's) 301st Bombardment Group, based at Salina Air Force Base, Kansas, was on rotational training at Furstenfeld-bruck, the German air base near Munich. As the friction intensified between the ...
Preemptive Strike: The Secret Plan That Would Have Prevented the Attack on Pearl Harbor.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... The Secret Plan That Would Have Prevented the Attack on Pearl Harbor. By Alan Armstrong. Guilford, Ct.: The Lyons Press, 2006. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography.Index.Pp. xvii, 237. $22.95. ISBN: 1-59228-913-4 There are tricks in selecting the title and cover design of a book to ...
Roaring Thunder: The Birth of the Jet Age [A Novel].(Roaring Thunder: The Birth of the Jet Age)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Roaring Thunder: The Birth of the Jet Age [A Novel]. By Walter J. Boyne. New York: Forge (Tom Doherty Associates), 2006. Pp. 303. $24.95. ISBN: 0-76530843-6 Walter Boyne knows something about history, particularly aviation history. That comes as no surprise since he spent most ...
Chopper: Firsthand Accounts of Helicopter Warfare, World War II to Iraq.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Chopper:. Firsthand Accounts of Helicopter Warfare: World War II to Iraq. By Robert F. Dorr. New York: Berkley Books, 2005. Photographs. Index. Pp. vi, 328. $24.95 ISBN: 0-425-20273-9 The latest volume from noted aviation writer Robert Dorr is the result of seventy-seven ...
American Women and Flight since 1940.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... American Women and Flight since 1940. By Deborah G. Douglas with Amy E. Foster, Alan D. Meyer, and Lucy B. Young. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Tables. Illustrations. Photographs. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xi, 359. $29.95 Paperback. ISBN: 0-8131-9073-8 ...
Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Forty Years of U.S. Human Spaceflight Symposium.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Forty Years of U.S. Human Spaceflight Symposium. Edited by Stephen J. Garber. Washington, D.C.: NASA History Office, 2002 [NASA History Series SP 2002-4107]. Illustrations. Photographs. Notes. Pp. vi, 247. $17.00 Paperback ISBN: 0-16-067595-2 ...
P-47 Pilots: The Fighter-Bomber Boys.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... P-47 Pilots: The Fighter-Bomber Boys. By Tom Glenn. Osceola, Wisc.: MBI Publishing Company, 1998. Photographs. Index. Pp. 157. $19.95 Paperback ISBN 07603-0548-X An often downplayed aspect of the air war over Europe is the role played by the tactical air forces. Supporting the ...
Bomber Offensive.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Bomber Offensive. By Arthur Harris. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Pen and Sword, 2005 [originally 1947]. Maps. Tables. Diagrams. Illustrations. Photographs. Index. Pp. 288. $15.00 Paperback ISBN: 1-84415-210-3 This is the recently republished World War II memoir of Sir Arthur ...
Globemaster III: Acquiring the C-17.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Globemaster III: Acquiring the C-17. By Betty R. Kennedy. Scott AFB, Ill.: Air Mobility Command Office of History, 2004. Tables. Photographs. Notes. Appendices. Glossary. Index. Pp. xv, 298. Betty Kennedy has done a superb job of capturing the tortuous history of the birth and ...
Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight. By Maura Phillips Mackowski. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2006. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xii, 289. $49.95 ISBN: 1-58544-439-1 Airplanes and rockets developed from ...
The Future of War: Organizations as Weapons.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... The Future of War: Organizations as Weapons. By Mark D. Mandeles. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2005. Acronyms. Notes. Index. Pp. ix, 212. $48.00. ISBN: 1-57488-630-4 Despite laudatory jacket comments, this book falls short in one major aspect: it fails to draw on--or ...
Military Aircraft, Origins to 1918: An Illustrated History of Their Impact.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Military Aircraft, Origins to 1918: An Illustrated History of their Impact. By Justin D. Murphy. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 2005. Maps. Tables. Diagrams. illustrations. Photographs. Notes. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xiii, 319. $85.00 ISBN: 1-85109-488-1 ...
With the Possum and the Eagle: The Memoir of a Navigator's War Over Germany and Japan.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... With the Possum and the Eagle: The Memoir of a Navigator's War over Germany and Japan. By Ralph H. Nutter. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2005. Map. Diagram. Photographs. Notes. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xiv, 327. $29.95 Paperback ISBN: 1-57441-198-5 ...
The Politics of Air Power: From Confrontation to Cooperation in Army Aviation Civil-Military Relations.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... The Politics of Air Power: From Confrontation to Cooperation in Army Aviation Civil-Military Relations. By Rondall R. Rice. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xxii, 283. $49.95 ISBN: 0-8032-3906-2 Dr. Rice, an assistant professor of ...
Flying into Hell: The Bomber Command Offensive in World War Two as Witnessed by the Crew Themselves.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Flying into Hell: The Bomber Command Offensive in World War Two as Witnessed by the Crew Themselves. By Mel Rolfe. London: Grubb St., 2004. Photographs. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Pp. vi, 186. $19.95 Paperback. ISBN: 1-904010-89-X. In one respect, Flying into Hell delivers a ...
Project Apollo: The Tough Decisions.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Project Apollo: The Tough Decisions. By Robert C. Seamans, Jr. Washington D.C.: NASA History Division, 2005 [NASA SP 2005-4537]. Maps. Tables. Photographs. Notes. Appendices. Index. Pp. xi, 159. ISBN: 0-16-074954-9 Dr. Seamans earned his BS degree in engineering at Harvard ...
Locating Air Force Base Sites: History's Legacy.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Locating Air Force Base Sites: History's Legacy. Frederick J. Shaw, ed. Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2004. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Acronyms. Index. Pp. ix, 215. $20.00. ISBN: 0-16-072415-5. In Locating Air Force Base Sites, Frederick Shaw ...
G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II. By Barbara Brooks Tomblin. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Notes. Map. Bibliography. Index. Pp. viii, 254. $26.95 Paperback ISBN: 0-8131-9071-1 The battle-scarred soldiers, seamen, and airmen of the ...
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq.(must read book, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq and Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. By Thomas E. Ricks. New York: The Penguin Press, 2006. Maps. Photographs. Index. Pp. 496 ISBN: 1-59420-103-X and Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. By Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor. New ...
Books received.
Mar 22, 2007 ... Alling, Charles. A Mighty Fortress: Lead Bomber over Europe: Philadelphia: Casemate, 2002 and 2006. Maps. Illustrations. Photographs. Notes. Index. Pp. xiii, 183. $19.95 Paperback ISBN: 1-932033-59-9 Black, Jeremy. A Military History of Britain: From 1775 to the Present ....
Coming up.(Calendar)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Mar 20 The Military Classics Seminar will meet at Ft. Myer, Va. Mark D. Mandeles, The J. de Bloch Group, will review Michael R. Gordon's and Bernard E. Trainor's book, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. New York: Pantheon, 2006. Mar ...
The president's remarks.(Air Force Historical Foundation)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2007 ... Last October we took a major step in revising the governance of the Air Force Historical Foundation by installing a new Board of Directors (see page 2) as called for in the bylaws approved by the membership in April 2006. I am pleased to call your attention to the fact that we have, in ...
60th anniversary USAF 1947-2007.(United States. Air Force)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Looking ahead after a long and sometimes frustrating effort, we are on the brink of putting our website--www.afhistoricalfoundation.org--to its intended use, meaning that it will provide members with the ability to join and renew, find out what is going on, register for events, buy books, ...
Comment on RB--47H article.(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Reference the very nicely written article by Forrest L. Marion in the Fall 2006 issue of Air Power History, "A Hot Day in a Cold War: An RB--47 vs. MiG--17s, April 28, 1965." I very much enjoyed the article of a Cold War encounter that is rarely mentioned by writers, rather ...
McD and Richtofen.(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2007; ... What a great tribute to the late Brig. Gen. Robert McDermott in your recent Winter issue! I was privileged to know General "McD" over the past eight years, during the time that he worked with us to establish the American Fighter Aces Museum in San Antonio. Sadly, our efforts did not meet ...
Tom Y'Blood (1936-2006).(News)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2007 ... Military historian Tom Y'Blood died after a heart attack on December 16, 2006. He was sixty-nine. Born in Forrester, Arkansas, in 1937, he graduated with a degree in music from the University of Oregon in 1959. As an Air Force pilot from 1960 to 1966, he flew B-, EB-, and RB--47's for the ...
Samuel Dickens (1926-2006).(News)(Samuel Thomas Dickens passes away)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2007 ... Col. Samuel Thomas Dickens, USAF (Ret.), an authority on national security policy, died of cancer on December 29, 2006. He was eighty years old. A West Point (1951) graduate, he became a pilot and flew reconnaissance missions during and after Korean War. In 2002, he organized a historical ...
B-Plant closes: paved the way for jet engine testing.(Arnold Engineering Development Center )
Mar 22, 2007 ... Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn. -- The U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center recently closed the Basic Plant (B-Plant) facility. It ends a remarkable and historic chapter after more than fifty years of aerospace ground testing. (See photo on page 63.) "Almost every ...
Reunions.
Mar 22, 2007 ... USS Tarawa, CV-40 and LHA-1, will hold a reunion April 12-17, 2007, in Dayton. Ohio. Contact: Frank Grosey 976 Holly St. Bull Head City, AZ 86442 (928) 763-8242 e-mail: groseyjr@frontiernet.net or Walter ...
General Jacob Edward Smart 1909-2006.(in memoriam)(Obituary)
Mar 22, 2007; ... General Jacob Edward Smart, 97, died on November 12, 2006, in Ridgeland, South Carolina, in the house in which he was born. A top strategist, tactician, planner, and air commander during World War II, General Smart worked closely with General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, Commanding General, Army ...