A Concise History of the U.S. Air Force/Suggested Readings

by Stephen L. McFarland

Suggested Readings

Air University Air Command and Staff College. Space Handbook: A War Fighter's Guide to Space. Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.: Air University Press, 1993.

Beck, Alfred M., ed. With Courage: The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II. Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1994.

Burrows, William E. Deep Black: Space Espionage and National Security. New York: Random House, 1986.

Clodfelter, Mark. The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam. New York: Free Press, 1989.

Cooling, Benjamin F., ed. Case Studies in the Achievement of Air Superiority. Washington, D.C.: Center for Air Force History, 1994.

―, ed. Case Studies in the Development of Close Air Support. Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, 1990.

Copp, DeWitt S. A Few Great Captains: The Men and Events that Shaped the Development of U.S. Air Power. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980.

―. Forged in Fire: Strategy and Decisions in the Air War over Europe, 1940-1945. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1982.

Craven, Wesley Frank, and James Lea Cate, eds. The Army Air Forces in World War II. 7 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948-1955.

Davis, Richard G. Carl A. Spaatz and the Air War in Europe. Washington, D.C.: Center for Air Force History, 1993.

Douglas, Deborah G. United States Women in Aviation, 1940-1985. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.

Futrell, Robert F. Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine: A History of Basic Training in the United States Air Force, 1907-1964. Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.: Air University, 1974.

―. The United States Air Force in Korea, 1950-1953. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1961.

Glines, Carroll V., Jr. The Compact History of the United States Air Force. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1973.

Goldberg, Alfred, ed. A History of the United States Air Force, 1907-1957. Princeton, N.J: D. Van Nostrand, 1957.

Gropman, Alan L. The Air Force Integrates, 1945-1964. Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, 1978.

Gulf War Air Power Survey. Gulf War Air Power Survey. 6 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1993.

Hall, R. Cargill, ed. Case Studies in Strategic Bombardment. Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program, unpublished manuscript.

Hallion, Richard P. Rise of the Fighter Aircraft, 1914-1918: Air Combat in World War I. Annapolis: Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company, 1984.

―. Storm Over Iraq: Air Power and the Gulf War. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

―. Strike from the Sky: The History of Battlefield Air Attack, 1911-1945. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

―. Test Pilots: The Frontiersmen of Flight. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988.

Hansell, Haywood S., Jr. The Strategic Air War against Germany and Japan. Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, 1986.

Haydon, Frederick Stansbury. Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate Armies. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1941.

Hennessy, Juliette A. The United States Army Air Arm, April 1861 to April 1917. Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, 1985.

Hudson, James J. Hostile Skies: A Combat History of the American Air Service in World War I. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1968.

Hurley, Alfred F. Billy Mitchell: Crusader for Air Power. New York: E Watts, 1964.

Kennett, Lee B. The First Air War, 1914-1918. New York: Free Press, 1991.

Kerr, E. Bartlett. Flames over Tokyo: The U.S. Army Air Forces' Incendiary Campaign Against Japan, 1944-1945. New York: Donald I. Fine, 1991.

Mark, Eduard. Aerial Interdiction in Three Wars. Washington, D.C.: Center for Air Force History, 1994.

Maurer, Maurer. Aviation in the U.S. Army, 1919-1939. Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, 1987.

―, ed. The U.S. Air Service in World War I. 4 vols. Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala..' Simpson Historical Research Center, 1978.

McFarland, Stephen L. America's Pursuit of Precision Bombing, 1910-1945. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.

―, and Wesley Phillips Newton. To Command the Sky: The Battle for Air Superiority over Germany, 1942-1944. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.

Morrow, John H. The Great War in the Air: Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.

Neufeld, Jacob. The Development of Ballistic Missiles in the United States Air Force, 1945-1960. Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, 1990.

Tilford, Earl H. Crosswinds: The Air Force's Setup in Vietnam. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993.

United States Strategic Bombing Survey. Final Reports of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey. 325 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1945-1947.