So Far from Home: Royal Air Force and Free French Air Force Flight Training at Maxwell and Gunter Fields During World War II
During World War II, the US Army Air Forces (AAF) trained over 21,000 aircrew members from 29 Allied countries. The two largest programs, 79 percent of those trained, were for Britain and France. The Royal Air Force (RAF), fully engaged against the German Air Force by December 1940, was not able to train new aircrews. The British government asked the United States to train new pilots until it could get its own flight training program underway. Lieutenant General Henry Hap Arnold, chief of the Army Air Corps, authorized the training of RAF pilots at select airfields in the southeast United States, including at Maxwell and Gunter fields near Mo…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60306-369-2
- EAN: 9781603063692
- Produktnummer: 21719218
- Verlag: Newsouth Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 152 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.8 cm 213 g
- Gewicht: 213
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Dr. Robert B. Kane holds bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees in European history. He spent 27 years in the Air Force between 1976 and 2003, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. An Air Force historian since July 2005, he presently serves as the Chief Historian, Air University, Maxwell AFB, AL. He has also served as adjunct faculty for various colleges and universities and presently teaches part-time for Troy University, AL, and the American Military University, WVA. He has received numerous Air Force awards and recognition as an Outstanding Young American (1985) and in Who's Who in America. He has published Disobedience and Conspiracy in the German Army, 1918-45, book reviews, and short articles for various encyclopedias. Dr. Kane presently resides in Montgomery, AL, and is married to the former Anita Louise van Deursen and has two children.
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