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Undarkened Skies - The American Aircraft Building Programme of the First World War (Hardcover)
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Undarkened Skies - The American Aircraft Building Programme of the First World War (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 4 810
You Save R119 (20%)
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Soon after entering the war in April 1917 American propaganda
promised that she would `Darken the skies over Europe' by sending
over `the Greatest Aerial Armada ever seen'. Encouraged by the
French Government America promised to build no less than 22,000
aeroplanes within a year and to field, and to maintain, a force of
4,000 machines, all of the latest type, over the Western Front
during 1918, not only to provide adequate air support for her own
troops, but because she saw this as a way to use her industrial
strength to bypass the squalor of the war in the trenches, and so
bring an end to the stalemate of attrition into which the war had
descended. However, by the time of the Armistice more than 18
months later just a few hundred American built aeroplanes had
reached the war fronts and several investigations into the causes
of the failure of the project were already in progress.
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