Choke Hold: The Attack on Japanese Oil during the War

by School of Advanced Airpower Studies

After WW I, Army airmen like Billy Mitchell, in a bid for service independence, touted land-based air power's dominance over ships. Later, airmen at the Air Corps Tactical School developed a theory of independent air power application based on strategic bombing. These airmen persuaded Congress to purchase the tools to implement strategic bombing--fleets of heavy bombers--by citing these aircraft as optimum for defending the US coasts against enemy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500371033
• ISBN13: 9781500371036
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"