Within Limits: The U.S. Air Force and the Korean War

by U.S. Air Force, U.S. Office of Air Force History, Office of Air Force History

Despite American success in preventing the conquest of South Korea by communist North Korea, the Korean War of 1950-1953 did not satisfy Americans who expected the kind of total victory they had experienced in World War II. In that earlier, larger war, victory over Japan came after two atomic bombs destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But in Korea five years later, the United States limited itself to conventional weapons. Even after communist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508802513
• ISBN13: 9781508802518
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 58 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"