"Military Aviation in Ireland" charts the history of the Air Corps
from its early days as the Military Air Service established by
Michael Collins in 1922 to the ineffective air operations conducted
during the Second World War period. The Air Service came about when
the Civil War caused the postponement of Michael Collins' plans for
a civil air service. After participation in the war of 1922-3 a
small Air Corps was confirmed as the token air element of a
substantially infantry army. The Army Air Corps survived the 1920s
and 1930s, despite the absence of government defence policy and the
Army leadership's great indifference to military aviation. In the
Second World War period, two squadrons of the Air Corps were given
air force tasks for which they had little aptitude and for which
they were totally unprepared in terms of personnel, airmanship,
aircraft and training, failures which led directly to the
demoralization of the Corps. During most of this period the Air
Corps, on secretive government orders, carried out tasks aimed at
assisting the war effort of the Royal Air Force. Using extensive
archival research, Michael C. O'Malley throws new light on the
people and operations of Ireland's early aviation history.
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