Canadian Airmen and the First World War : : The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force /

Canadian Airmen and the First World War : : The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force / / S.F. Wise.

The first of three volumes of the Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, this book provides the definitive story of Canadian airmen in World War I and, moreover, a revisionist account of the war in the air. Organized topically, this volume begins with an overview of military aviation in C...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
VerfasserIn:
Wise, S.F.,
MitwirkendeR:
Wise, S. F.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1980
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (918 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps and Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Military Aviation before the First World War
  • Part I: Canadian Training and Air Policy
  • Introduction
  • 2. Recruiting and Training in Canada, 1914-16
  • 3. Sir Sam Hughes, the Aviation Lobby, and Canadian Air Policy, 1914-16
  • 4. RFC Expansion and the Canadian Air Training Organization
  • Part II: The Admiralty and the Air
  • Introduction
  • 5. Origins of Naval Airpower
  • 6. 1916: Diffusion and Misdirection
  • 7. Alternative Roles, 1917-18
  • 8. Aviation and the Victory over the Submarine
  • Part III: Strategic Airpower
  • Introduction
  • 9. The Air Defence of Britain
  • 10. The RNAS and the Birth of a Bombing Strategy
  • 11. The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany
  • Part IV: Airpower in the Land Battle
  • Introduction
  • 12. Experiments on the Western Front, 1914-15
  • 13. The Birth of Airpower, 1916
  • 14. Stalemate on the Western Front, 1917
  • 15. Italy and Macedonia, 1917-18
  • 16. The Ludendorff Offensives, 1918
  • 17. Amiens
  • 18. Perfecting the Air Weapon
  • Conclusion
  • 19. Towards the Establishment of a Canadian Air Force
  • Appendices
  • A. Canadian Airmen and the British Intervention in Russia, 1918-20
  • B. Canadians in Other Theatres, 1915-18
  • C. Statistical Analysis of Canadians in the British Flying Services
  • Notes
  • Index

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