Rise and Fall of the French Air Force - French Air Operations and Strategy 1900-1940Pevná vazba
Rise and Fall of the French Air Force - French Air Operations and Strategy 1900-1940Pevná vazba On 10 May 1940, the French possessed one of the largest air forces in the world. Six weeks later,…
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Rise and Fall of the French Air Force - French Air Operations and Strategy 1900-1940Pevná vazba
On 10 May 1940, the French possessed one of the largest air forces in the world. Six weeks later, France had been defeated. On paper, it was nearly as strong as the RAF.
In the decades that followed, the debate raged. For a struggling French Army desperately looking for air support, the skies seemed empty of friendly planes. Were there unused stockpiles of planes?
Were French aircraft really so inferior? Baughen examines the myths that surround the French defeat. He explains how at the end of the First World War, the French had possessed the most effective air force in the world, only for the lessons learned to be forgotten.
Instead, air policy was guided by radical theories that predicted air power alone would decide future wars.Baughen traces some of the problems back to the very earliest days of French aviation. He describes the mistakes and bad luck that dogged the French
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