Description: Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower by Dik Alan Daso (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000) Hand signed by author on title page; hardcover with dust jacket. This book has been kept in a smoke-free, bug-free home. Book will be packaged carefully to ensure its safe transit. From 1938 to 1946, as the first Commanding General of the US Army Air Forces—the largest, most powerful air armada that has ever been assembled—Henry Harley “Hap” Arnold fought World War II not in the field but in Congress, on the Army General Staff, in factories, and in universities. His vision of airpower as more than just sophisticated aircraft not only established US air supremacy during the war but also laid the foundations for the technology, infrastructure, and philosophy of today's air force.The first biographer to draw from all of Hap Arnold's personal papers as well as recently declassified military documents, Dik Alan Daso traces a career centered around the airplane, the technological achievement that revolutionized twenieth-century warfare. Describing the technology, institutions, and individuals—from the Wright Brothers to the president of Caltech—that influenced Arnold's decisions as a general, Daso shows how the peacetime experiences of World War II's foremost military airman shaped the evolution of American military aviation as a whole.
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Features: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Signed
Level: Advanced
Format: Hardcover
Series: Smithsonian History of Aviation Series
Subject: Aviation
Product Type: Textbook
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Educational Level: College
Year: 2000
Language: English
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Name: Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower
Subject Area: Mechanical Engineering
Author: Dik Alan Daso
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Personalized: No
Type: Hardcover
