TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jablonski,Edward
TI  - America in the air war
T2  - Epic of flight
SN  - 0809433435
PY  - 1982///
CY  - Alexandria, Va.
PB  - Time-Life Books
KW  - United States
KW  - Army Air Forces
KW  - History
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Aerial operations, American
N1  - With hardcover; Includes bibliogr. and index; Cont.: The fall and rise of U.S. air power -- Target Europe -- Little Friends to the rescue -- Acme of destruction -- "One damned island after another."
N2  - When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Army Air Forces had only 1,100 combat-ready planes. No one could have imagined then that within the next four years the AAF would become the mighty weapon commemorated in the paintings reproduced on the following pages, or that it would have to scope to engage in what its commander, General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, described as a "global mission."
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