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Download or read book The Final Report and a Tactical History written by Office of Air Force History and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1918 Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, Chief of Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), directed his newly appointed Assistant Chief of Staff, Col. Edgar S. Gorrell, to prepare a history and final report on U.S. air activities in Europe during World War I. The narratives written and compiled by Gorrell and his staff were submitted by Patrick to Gen. John J. Pershing, Commander in Chief of the AEF. They summarized Air Service activities from the arrival of the first airmen in France in the spring of 1917 until the Armistice on November 11, 1918. The "Final Report" was published by the Air Service in an Information Circular in 1921, and by the Army in a multivolume collection of World War I documents in 1948. Although it has been used and cited by a number of historians over the years, it deserves to be better known. The Office of Air Force History, therefore, is republishing it so as to reach a wider circle of persons interested in the Great War and the early history of military aviation. Another important document produced under Gorrell's supervision as part of the history of the Air Service, AEF, is a "Tactical History" written by Lt. Col. William C. Sherman and a group of officers working with him in France at the end of the war. Although published in part in an Air Service Information Circular in 1920, Sherman's "Tactical History" has remained virtually unknown, or at least has not had extensive use. Since it provides excellent information about the conduct of combat operations, it should be of value to persons interested in aerial warfare in the First World War. It has been included, therefore, in this volume with the "Final Report." This is one of a series of volumes of World War I documentation that the Office of Air Force History is planning to publish.
Download or read book The U S Air Service in World War I The final report and A tactical history written by Maurer Maurer and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The U s Air Service in World War I written by Maurer Maurer and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1918 Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, Chief of Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), directed his newly appointed Assistant Chief of Staff, Col. Edgar S. Gorrell, to prepare a history and final report on U.S. air activities in Europe during World War I. They summarized Air Service activities from the arrival of the first airmen in France in the spring of 1917 until the Armistice on November 11, 1918. Another important document produced under Gorrell's supervision as part of the history of the Air Service, AEF, is a "Tactical History" written by Lt. Col. William C. Sherman and a group of officers working with him in France at the end of the war. The "Final Report" and "Tactical History" published in this volume are products of the historical program of the Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). They are part of that monumental compilation of historical narratives and documentary materials that has come to be known as "Gorrell's History."
Download or read book The U S Air Service in World War I Volume 1 the Final Report and a Tactical History written by Maurer Maurer and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is part of a series documenting the history of U.S. air activities in Europe during World War I. The narratives here are published by the Office of Air Force History so as to reach a wider circle of persons interested in the Great War and the early history of military aviation. Included in this volume is William C. Sherman's "tactical History" which provides excellent information about the conduct of combat operations.
Download or read book US AIR SERVICE IN WWI written by Maurer Maurer and published by St. John's Press. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When hostilities ceased on November 11, 1918, there were actually assigned to armies 45 American squadrons and 767 pilots, 481 observers, 23 aerial gunners, and the complement of soldiers. These squadrons were equipped with 740 airplanes, with armament of the latest type, arid the flying personnel, trained in Air Service schools was second to none in the world for aggressiveness and skill. Twelve oi these squadrons were equipped with American built airplanes and Liberty engines. This engine in actual service fulfilled the highest hope of it which had been entertained in the United States. On the Marne, at St. Mihiel, and in the Argonne air forces were pitted against the best which Germany, could produce, and the results show that the enemy more than met his match. Our pilots shot down 781 enemy airplanes which were officially confirmed, and many others, too far behind the lines to be confirmed by our own witnesses, but which were nevertheless undoubtedly destroyed. They also destroyed 73 (confirmed) enemy balloon. Our total losses in air battles were 289 airplanes and 48 balloons brought down by the enemy.
Download or read book The Final Report and a Tactical History written by Office of Office of Air Force History and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1918 Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, Chief of Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), directed his newly appointed Assistant Chief of Staff, Col. Edgar S. Gorrell, to prepare a history and final report on U.S. air activities in Europe during World War I. The narratives written and compiled by Gorrell and his staff were submitted by Patrick to Gen. John J. Pershing, Commander in Chief of the AEF. They summarized Air Service activities from the arrival of the first airmen in France in the spring of 1917 until the Armistice on November 11, 1918. The "Final Report" was published by the Air Service in an Information Circular in 1921, and by the Army in a multivolume collection of World War I documents in 1948. Although it has been used and cited by a number of historians over the years, it deserves to be better known. The Office of Air Force History, therefore, is republishing it so as to reach a wider circle of persons interested in the Great War and the early history of military aviation. Another important document produced under Gorrell's supervision as part of the history of the Air Service, AEF, is a "Tactical History" written by Lt. Col. William C. Sherman and a group of officers working with him in France at the end of the war. Although published in part in an Air Service Information Circular in 1920, Sherman's "Tactical History" has remained virtually unknown, or at least has not had extensive use. Since it provides excellent information about the conduct of combat operations, it should be of value to persons interested in aerial warfare in the First World War. It has been included, therefore, in this volume with the "Final Report." This is one of a series of volumes of World War I documentation that the Office of Air Force History is planning to publish.
Download or read book U S Air Service in World War 1 V 1 the Final Report and a Tactical History written by United States. Air Force. Office of Air Force History and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The U S Air Service in World War I The final report and A tactical history written by Maurer Maurer and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The U S Air Service in World War I Volume IV Postwar Review written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1979 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Armistice in 1918, Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, Chief of Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, directed that a record be made of lessons learned during the war. This information, he believed, was needed for planning the Air Service of the future. The reports prepared by commanders, pilots, observers, and other members of the various Air Service units in response to General Patrick's directive are of considerable historical interest for the information they contain about the Air Service and its employment at the front. A select group of the reports on lessons learned make up Part 1 of this volume of World War I documents on U.S. military aviation. Part II is devoted to a report on the effects of Allied bombing in World War I. This long-forgotten document, the result of a post-war investigation by the Air Intelligence Section of General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces, is the counterpart of the well-known United States Strategic Bombing Survey of World War II.
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Download or read book The U S Air Service in World War I Volume II Early Concepts of Military Aviation written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The U S Air Service in World War I Final report of the Chief of Air Service AEF A tactical history of the Air Service AEF written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The U S Air Service in World War I The Final Report and A Tactical History Stories About the Sopwith Camel Haviland Eddie Rickenbacker Observation Balloons Pursuit Tactics and Spad Planes written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important and comprehensive historical account of U.S. air activities in Europe during World War I. The "Final Report" published in this volume has been taken from Air Service Information Circular (Aviation), Vol. II, No. 180, 15 February 1921. Substantive changes made in the Office of the Chief of Air Service when the "Final Report" was being prepared for publication in 1921 have been pointed out in notes provided by the editor. When the United States entered the war in April 1917, the Army had two reporting systems for obtaining historical information from some of its major components, but that was the extent of the historical program. In February 1918, however, the War Department created a Historical Branch of the General Staff to write the history of the World War. About the same time, Gen. John J. Pershing, Commander in Chief of the AEF, set up a historical unit in AEF General Headquarters at Chaumont-en-Bassigny, France. During the weeks that followed, historical programs were established by various elements of the U.S. Army, including the AEF's Services of Supply (SOS), with headquarters at Tours, France. Final Report of the Chief of Air Service, AEF * I. Achievement * II. The Woevre and the Marne * III. St. Mihiel and the Argonne-Meuse * IV. Early Problems and Their Solutions * V. Reorganization and Development * VI. Period of Expansion * VII. The Working Organization * VIII. Difficulties * IX. Scope of Activities and General Remarks * X. Training * XI. The Supply Section * XII. The Technical Section * XIII. The Balloon Section * XIV. The Aircraft Armament Section * XV. The Photographic Section * XVI. The Radio Section * XVII. The Medical Consultant * XVIII. Conclusion * A Tactical History of the Air Service, AEF * Part One: The Achievement of the Air Service, AEF * Part Two: Tactical History of Corps Observation * I. Introduction * II. The First Corps Observation Group in the Toul Sector * III. The 12th Aero Squadron in the Baccarat Sector * IV. The Third Flight of the 99th Squadron in the Vosges * V. The 1st Corps Air Service at Chateau-Thierry * VI. The Third Corps Air Service on the Vesle River * VII. The Corps Air Service in the St. Mihiel Offensive * VIII. The Corps Air Service in the Argonne-Meuse Offensive * Part Three: Tactical History of Army Observation * I. On the Toul Sector * II. The St. Mihiel Offensive * III. The Argonne-Meuse Offensive * Part Four: Tactical History of Pursuit Aviation * I. The Toul Sector * II. Chateau-Thierry * III. St. Mihiel Offensive * IV. Argonne-Meuse Offensive * V. American Pursuit Units on the British Front * VI. Second Army Pursuit * Appendices to Tactical History of Pursuit Aviation * A. Sample Battle Orders, Air Service, First Army * B. Sample Operations Order, 1st Pursuit Wing * C. Sample Operations Order, 1st Pursuit Group * D. Table: Percentage of Casualties to Available Pilots * E. Chart: Enemy Aircraft Brought Down * F. Chart: Ratio of Confirmed Victories to Casualties * G. Table: Planes on Hand and Available for Service and Pilots Available * Part Five: Tactical History of Day Bombardment * I. From the Beginning to the St. Mihiel Offensive * II. The St. Mihiel Offensive * III. The Argonne-Meuse Offensive * Part Six: Tactical History of American Observation Balloons * I. In the Toul Sector * II. At Chateau-Thierry * III. In the St. Mihiel Battle * IV. In the Argonne-Meuse Offensive * V. Miscellaneous
Download or read book Piercing the Fog Intelligence and Army Air Forces Operations in World War II written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
