Air Force History and Museums Program. Edited by Frederick J. Shaw.В Describes military, technical, economic, and political reasoning that has influenced the location, or basing, of major flying and non-flying units in the continental United States, excluding Alaska, between 1907 and 2003. Deals with the basing of bomber, fighter, airlift and missile units, training installations, logistic ce…
U.S. Air Force (USAF) planners have envisioned that uninhabited air vehicles (UAVs), working in concert with inhabited vehicles, will become an integral part of the future force structure. Current plans are based on the premise that UAVs have the potential to augment, or even replace, inhabited aircraft in a variety of missions. However, UAV technologies must be better understood before they wi…
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 World War II. In that earlier, larger war, victory over Japan came after two atomic bombs destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, in Korea five years later, the United …