Colonel Wells investigates the nature of aerial warfare and the men who took part. The book analyzes aircrew selection, reaction to combat, adaptability to stress, morale, leadership and combat effectiveness, and compares the efforts of the US Eighth Air Force and RAF Bomber Command.
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FROM THE earliest days of aviation, airmen have been regarded as members of an élite group, largely as a result of the dangers associated with flying. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
successful airmen, operational exhaustion, reclassification board, aircrew stress, emotional casualties, stanine tests, aircrew morale, flying fatigue, aircrew personnel, operational fatigue, temperamental unsuitability, aircrew selection, flying stress, combat airmen, bomber aircrew, bomber crewmen, neuropsychiatric casualties, most airmen, operational research section, emotional casualty, crew force, bomb group, operational tour, flying personnel, strategic bombing offensive Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eighth Air Force, Bomber Command, Air Ministry, New York, Royal Air Force, Library of Congress, Office of the Air Surgeon, Second World War, Army Air Forces, Combined Bomber Offensive, Central Medical Board, Squadron Leader, Wing Commander, Air Historical Branch, David Stafford-Clark, General Doolittle, Government Printing Office, Bombardment Group, General Curtis, Max Hastings, Air Vice-Marshal, Fifteenth Air, Imperial War Museum, Army Regulation, General Theodore New!
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FROM THE earliest days of aviation, airmen have been regarded as members of an élite group, largely as a result of the dangers associated with flying. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
successful airmen, operational exhaustion, reclassification board, aircrew stress, emotional casualties, stanine tests, aircrew morale, flying fatigue, aircrew personnel, operational fatigue, temperamental unsuitability, aircrew selection, flying stress, combat airmen, bomber aircrew, bomber crewmen, neuropsychiatric casualties, most airmen, operational research section, emotional casualty, crew force, bomb group, operational tour, flying personnel, strategic bombing offensive Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eighth Air Force, Bomber Command, Air Ministry, New York, Royal Air Force, Library of Congress, Office of the Air Surgeon, Second World War, Army Air Forces, Combined Bomber Offensive, Central Medical Board, Squadron Leader, Wing Commander, Air Historical Branch, David Stafford-Clark, General Doolittle, Government Printing Office, Bombardment Group, General Curtis, Max Hastings, Air Vice-Marshal, Fifteenth Air, Imperial War Museum, Army Regulation, General Theodore New!
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- Bomber Command (A Touchstone book) by Max Hastings on 8 pages
- Bomber Offensive (Pen & Sword Military Classics) by Arthur Harris on 5 pages
- The Mighty Eighth: A History of the Units, Men and Machines of the US 8th Air Force by Roger A. Freeman on 5 pages
- On War (Dodo Press) by Carl von General Clausewitz on 5 pages
- Air Power! (Avatar) (Color Plus Tattoos) by Golden Books on page 113, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War, 1944--45 by John Nichol on 7 pages
- Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire (Centennial of Flight Series) by David T. Courtwright in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Air Power History: Turning Points from Kitty Hawk to Kosovo (Studies in Air Power) by Peter Gray in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Redefining Airmanship by Anthony Kern on page 25, and Back Matter
- The Second World War: A Short History (Struggle for Survival) by R. A. C. Parker in Back Matter
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