Boyne Walter J. - Brasseys Air Combat Reader

Brasseys AIR COMBAT Reader

Potomacs
THE HISTORY OF WAR
Series

Offering well-informed commentary on major conflicts throughout history, this series of acclaimed books includes the following:

Aircraft Down!: Evading Capture in WWII Europe
Philip D. Caine

Crimson Sky: The Air Battle for Korea
John R. Bruning

Dien Bien Phu: The Epic Battle America Forgot
Howard R. Simpson

Duty, Honor, Privilege: New Yorks Silk Stocking Regiment and the Breaking of the Hindenburg Line
Stephen L. Harris

The Outpost War: U.S. Marines in Korea, Vol. 1:1952
Lee Ballenger

The Story of the Second World War
Henry Steele Commager

Brasseys AIR COMPAT Reader

Edited by

Walter J. Boyne

and

Philip Handleman

First The History of War edition published in 2005

Copyright 1999 by Potomac Books, Inc.

Published in the United States by Potomac Books, Inc.
(formerly Brasseys, Inc.). All rights reserved. No part of this book
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brasseys air combat reader / edited by Walter J. Boyne and
Philip Handle man.1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.

1. Air warfare. 2. Military biography.
I. Boyne, Walter J., 1929- . II. Handleman, Philip.
UG630.B627 1999
358.43dc21 99-13246

CIP

ISBN 978-1 -57488-752-5 (paperback)

Designed by Pen & Palette Unlimited

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Printed in Canada

Introduction and excerpts introductions copyright 1999 Potomac Books, Inc.

The Machine Gun Takes Wings (1915), from The Years of the Sky Kings, by Arch Whitehouse. Copyright 1959 by Arch Whitehouse. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

A Buzz-Saw in the Air, from One Mans War: The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille, by Bert Hall and John J. Niles. Copyright 1929, 1957 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, Inc.

Downing My First Hun, from Fighting the Flying Circus, by Edward V. Ricken-backer. Copyright 1919 by Frederick A. Stokes Company and Edward V. Rickenbacker. Originally published by Frederick A. Stokes Company.

Dave Ingalls, the Naval Ace, from The First Yale Unit: A Story of Naval Aviation 1916-1919, by Ralph D. Paine. Copyright 1925 by Kate T. Davison. Originally printed at the Riverside Press.

Man Does Not Die, from Flight to Arras, by Antoine de Saint-Exupry. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company, William Heinemann Ltd., and Random House UK Limited.

Baders Bailout, from Reach for the Sky, by Paul Brickhill. Copyright 1954 by Paul Brickhill. Reprinted by permission of Paul Brickhill and the Watkins/Loomis Agency.

The Ace, from Fighter Pilot: The First American Ace of World War II, by William R. Dunn. Copyright 1982 by the University Press of Kentucky. Reprinted with permission of the University Press of Kentucky.

English Channel Collision, from Eagles at War, by Walter J. Boyne. Copyright 1991 by Walter J. Boyne. Originally published by Crown Publishers, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author.

TempsfordNew Secrets, MacRoberts Reply, and Gelsenkirchen, from A Thousand Shall Fall, by Murray Peden. Copyright 1979 by Canadas Wings. Reprinted by permission of Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited.

Nothing to Do but Keep Going, from Gabby: A Fighter Pilots Life, by Francis Gabreski as told to Carl Molesworth. Copyright 1991 by Francis Gabreski and Carl Molesworth. Reprinted by permission of Crown Publishers, Inc.

Turn on the Lights, from The Magnificent Mitscher, by Theodore Taylor. Copyright 1954, 1991 by the United States Naval Institute. Originally published by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Theodore Taylor and the Watkins/Loomis Agency.

MiG Alley, from Check Six: A Fighter Pilot Looks Back, by Frederick C. Blesse. Copyright 1987 by Frederick C. Blesse. Originally published by Champlin Fighter Museum Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.

A Typical Fighter-Interceptor Mission in Korea, from Officers in Flight Suits, by John Darrell Sherwood. Copyright 1996 by New York University. Reprinted by permission of New York University Press.

War Fighting Is Not Much Fun, from Wings and Warriors: My Life as a Naval Aviator, by Donald D. Engen. Copyright 1997 by the Smithsonian Institution. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

Ia Drang Valley and Holidays, from Chickenhawk, by Robert Mason. Copyright 1983 by Robert Mason. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. and Knox Burger Associates Ltd.

Wabash Cannonballs, from 100 Missions North, by Kenneth H. Bell. Copyright 1993 by Kenneth H. Bell. Originally published by Brasseys (US). Reprinted by permission of the author.

The Bombing Campaign and Dick Wyman, from Over the Beach: The Air War in Vietnam, by Zalin Grant. Copyright 1986 by Zalin Grant. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. and Harold Ober Associates Inc.

The Inferno, from A Lonely Kind of War, by Marshall Harrison. Copyright 1989 by Marshall Harrison. Reprinted by permission of Presidio Press, Novato, California.

The Six Day War, from Israels Best Defense: The First Full Story of the Israeli Air Force, by Eliezer Cohen. Copyright 1993 by Eliezer Cohen. Reprinted by permission of Crown Publishers, Inc.

Across the Line of Death, from The Untouchables, by Brian Shul and Walter Watson, Jr. Copyright 1993 by Brian Shul and Walter Watson Jr. Reprinted by permission of Mach 1, Inc., 800-955-MACH.

Which Technologies Worked? from Gulf War Air Power Survey Summary Report, by Thomas A. Keaney and Eliot A. Cohen. Originally published in 1993 by the U.S. Government Printing Office.

Command and Control, from Airpower in the Gulf, by James P. Coyne. Copyright 1992 by the Air Force Association. Reprinted by permission of the Air Force Association.

Strike Eagles to the Rescue, from Strike Eagle: Flying the F-15E in the Gulf War, by William L. Smallwood. Copyright 1994 by Brasseys, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

An Independent Air Force, from The Command of the Air, by Giulio Douhet. Originally published as separate works in 1921, 1927, 1928, 1929, and 1930. Reprinted in one combined volume in 1983 by the Office of Air Force History.

The Defense Against Aircraft, from Winged Defense, by William Mitchell. Copyright 1925 by William Mitchell. Originally published by G. P. Putnams Sons.

Fighter Missions, from Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering, by Robert L. Shaw. Copyright 1985 by the United States Naval Institute. Reprinted by permission of the Naval Institute Press.

Air Superioritythe Concept, from The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat, by John A. Warden III. Originally published in 1988 by NDU Press. Subsequently published in 1989 by Pergamon-Brasseys. Reprinted by permission of Brasseys, Inc.

The Future of Air Combat Technology, from Beyond the Horizon: Combat Aircraft of the Next Century,