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Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation through World War I

af Herbert A. Johnson

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At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903. Fifteen years later, however, American airmen flew European-designed aircraft because American planes were woefully inadequate for service on the Western Front. Why was the United States so poorly prepared to engage in aerial combat in World War I? To answer this question, Herbert Johnson takes a hard look at the early years of U.S. military aviation.… (mere)

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While rather dry, Johnson provides a good survey of the afflictions of U.S. Army aviation prior to entering World War I. Even if Congress had been prepared to extend more funding, the increasingly dysfunctional influence of the Wright Bros. and bad command relations in the Signal Corps suggest that the money would have been wasted. The climax of these factors was the ill-fated deployment of the 1st Aero Squadron on Pershing's punitive expedition to capture Pancho Villa, which the author gives one a good account of. Apart from that the friction between fliers and non-pilot superior officers in the Signal Corps detailed in this book do seem to be the embryo of the contentious relationship between the Air Service and the rest of the U.S. Army, post-1918. (

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At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903. Fifteen years later, however, American airmen flew European-designed aircraft because American planes were woefully inadequate for service on the Western Front. Why was the United States so poorly prepared to engage in aerial combat in World War I? To answer this question, Herbert Johnson takes a hard look at the early years of U.S. military aviation.

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