Eyes of Artillery: The Origins of Modern U.S. Army Aviation in World War II

by Edgar Frank Raines Jr., U.S. Army Center of Military History, United States Army

Book Overview

Eyes of Artillery is the first archive-based in-depth study of the institutional origins of modern Army Aviation during World War II. The close-support technique of choice featured airborne eyes and ground artillery. In recounting the experiences of the men who flew observed fire missions in light aircraft, Edgar F. Raines Jr. takes care to delineate how these aircraft-"air observations posts" in War Department parlance, "Maytag Messerschmidts" or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1505854784
• ISBN13: 9781505854787
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"