Download or read book Records of U S Air Force Commands and Organizations written by United States. National Archives and Records Administration and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Organization and Lineage of the United States Air Force written by Charles A. Ravenstein and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manuscript is part of a continuing series of historical volumes produced by the Office of Air Force History in direct support of Project Warrior. Since its beginning in 1992, Project Warrior has captured the imagination of Air Force people around the world and reawakened a keener appreciation of our fundamental purpose as Service: to deter war, but to be prepared to find and win should deterrence fail.

Download or read book The organization and lineage of the United States Air Force written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Organization and Lineage of the United States Air Force Organization of the USAF 1907 1947 Lineage of USAF Major Components 1947 to the Present Types of USAF Organizations written by Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating report surveys the evolution of the Air Force field structure from the earliest military aeronautical organizations to those comprising the modern Air Force. It does not examine every organizational facet of the Army Air Service, Army Air Corps, Army Air Forces, or United States Air Force, but it does trace most of the major organizations. It is intended to describe how the Air Force came to be, how it evolved organizationally, and how it was organized to accomplish its defense mission. The work consists of three parts. The first part surveys the beginning of the United States Army's air arm, birth of the Air Service, principal organizations created between the world wars, tremendous organizational growth during World War II, and the changes that occurred in the immediate postwar period. Part two, perhaps of most interest to Air Force personnel, discusses the superstructure of the service-the commands, separate operating agencies, direct reporting units, and numbered and named air forces. The lineages of these upper echelon establishments are traced from their creation to 1983. The final part examines the current USAF organizational hierarchy, from major commands down to functional entities, including detachments and operating locations. Heraldic illustrations in this volume are current through 1983. Only organizations with officially recognized emblems are represented. The U.S. Air Force Historical Research Center is responsible for all Air Force heraldry and now retains the original paintings of these emblems as an authoritative record. Colors shown in the emblems are reproduced as faithfully as the printing process will allow. All Air Force organizations are planned entities, many having lengthy lives under a variety of names. To avoid confusing one organization with another, the Air Force employs an identification system known as lineage. Although an organization that exists today may have begun its existence with a different name or a different number, or both, and may have existed for one or more periods only on paper, it can be identified as the same organization through its lineage. Tracing unit lineage involves determining all of the organizational actions which have affected an organization throughout its existence-actions such as constitution, reconstitution, disbandment, inactivation, activation, and redesignation. All units regardless of category must be readily identifiable; thus, each one has a distinctive designation. The designation includes a generic name (for example, squadron) denoting its position in the hierarchy, a functional name (for example, Bombardment) describing its primary mission, and in most cases a numerical or geographical name (examples, 9th, as in "9th Bombardment Squadron," or Craig, as in "USAF Hospital, Craig") that distinguishes it from all other units having the same functional and generic names. Without such distinctive designations, the lineage of Air Force organizations would be almost impossible to determine.

Download or read book The United States Air Force basic documents on roles and missions written by United States. DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE. OFFICE OF AIR FORCE HISTORY. and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Air Force Records Management Program written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Disposition of Air Force Records written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book That Others May Live written by Forrest L. Marion and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The USAF in Korea written by Judy G. Endicott and published by Department of the Air Force. This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States Air Force in Korea. Korean War Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Compiled by Organizational History Branch, Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency. Edited by A. Judy G. Endicott. Companion volume to "The USAF in Korea: A Chronology, 1950-1953." Provides information on the ten combat campaigns of the Korean War and gives an organizational view of tactical and support organizations carrying out combat operations. Locates organizations or elements of organizations at their stations in Korea during the war.

Download or read book A Concise History of the U S Air Force written by Stephen Lee McFarland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1997 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Except in a few instances, since World War II no American soldier or sailor has been attacked by enemy air power. Conversely, no enemy soldier orsailor has acted in combat without being attacked or at least threatened by American air power. Aviators have brought the air weapon to bear against enemies while denying them the same prerogative. This is the legacy of the U.S. AirForce, purchased at great cost in both human and material resources.More often than not, aerial pioneers had to fight technological ignorance, bureaucratic opposition, public apathy, and disagreement over purpose.Every step in the evolution of air power led into new and untrodden territory, driven by humanitarian impulses; by the search for higher, faster, and farther flight; or by the conviction that the air way was the best way. Warriors have always coveted the high ground. If technology permitted them to reach it, men, women andan air force held and exploited it-from Thomas Selfridge, first among so many who gave that "last full measure of devotion"; to Women's Airforce Service Pilot Ann Baumgartner, who broke social barriers to become the first Americanwoman to pilot a jet; to Benjamin Davis, who broke racial barriers to become the first African American to command a flying group; to Chuck Yeager, a one-time non-commissioned flight officer who was the first to exceed the speed of sound; to John Levitow, who earned the Medal of Honor by throwing himself over a live flare to save his gunship crew; to John Warden, who began a revolution in air power thought and strategy that was put to spectacular use in the Gulf War.Industrialization has brought total war and air power has brought the means to overfly an enemy's defenses and attack its sources of power directly. Americans have perceived air power from the start as a more efficient means of waging war and as a symbol of the nation's commitment to technology to master challenges, minimize casualties, and defeat adversaries.

Download or read book The United States Air Force written by Richard Irving Wolf and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Command Of The Air written by General Giulio Douhet and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.

Download or read book Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States Record groups 171 515 written by United States. National Archives and Records Administration and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book United States Air Force History written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract : This guide seeks to aid scholars and researchers to locate collections of primary and secondary documents on the Air Force. The first part deals with official Air Force depositories, which are essential to the historian writing about its operations worldwide. The second part describes the equally important collections of the National Archives and its depositories, including the pertinent papers in the Presidential Libraries. The third part covers university and college collections of personal papers of various military and civilian leaders, as well as other documents, which deal with the Air Force. Other governmental depositories-federal, state, and local-plus a number of private collections where Air Force material may be found are listed in part four. Finally, the last section describes a variety of other collections where primary and secondary materials on military, naval, and civil aviation-which directly or indirectly have impinged on the development of the Air Force-may be found.

Download or read book Disposition of Air Force Records written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book U S Air Force written by Dik A. Daso and published by Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. This book was released on 2006 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in conjunction with the Air Force Historical Foundation, a large-format, illustrated history of America's military aviators features more than 1,500 photographs and a year-by-year summary of its activities, from the early years of flight to Operation Iraqi Freedom."--Amazon.com