* * * * UNITED STATES * * * *
AIRBORNE
* * FORCES * * A fully illustrated history to
celebrate 50 years of action
from World War II to the
invasion of Panama Oversized Hardcover book with Dust Jacket by Barry Gregory Copyright © 1990 Brian Trodd Publishing House Ltd. " United States Airborne Forces is an authoritative account of the formation and development of US airborne forces from their successes and reverses in World War II to the deployment of today's truly air mobile infantry.
More than that, however, the author provides a long-awaited and fresh perspective on many important historical questions concerning the deployment of airborne forces: Why, for example, after World War II when most nations had dismantled their airborne forces did the French vigorously pursue the 'Airborne Cause' in Indo-China ? Why did Hitler after the triumph of the invasion of Holland and Belgium with parachute and glider troops, and the equally successful invasion of Crete, abandon 'assault from the sky' as a viable tactical concept ? When was it that 'airmobility' and heli-borne, air-landed infantry took over from the paratroopers, and will the vulnerable helicopter ever play a part in conventional, land battles of the future ? These, and many more questions are posed and answered by the author in a highly-readable narrative style. Using a profusion of illustrations, United States Airborne Forces assesses the strategy and tactics of the 'Airborne Method' and the aircraft and equipment that have so far supported the American paratrooper, glider-man and heli-trooper into battle. " Table of Contents includes: " Foreword Part One
Raising the U.S. Airborne, The War in Europe (1942-45),
The Pacific Theater (1942-45), The Korean War (1951-52). Overtures to War Jumping Jacks The Sky Legions The American T-type parachute in World War II Into the Wild Blue Yonder The Invasion of France A Time for Prayer The Invasion of France Bridges Galore Hitler's Last Bow Across the Rhine The Pacific Theater, 1942-45 The U.S. Airborne in the Korean War, 1950-53 Part Two
The Vietnam War (1961-75) A New Era of Air Mobility The Early Helicopter Operations The Jungle Birds in Action 1967-68: The Toughest Years The Tet Offensive Khe Sanh and After Cambodia, Laos and the Flight from Saigon Enter the Green Berets The War in the Central Highlands MACV/SOG: Tet-68 and the Green Berets Part Three
Grenada and Panama- The Future of Airborne Forces ? Index " This book is very good condition with minor.
The dust jacket has some rough edges and small tears and a few creases.
No torn or ripped pages. | 
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