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Striking the Hornets' Nest provides the first extensive analysis of
the Northern Bombing Group (NBG), the Navy's most innovative
aviation initiative of World War I and one of the world's first
dedicated strategic bombing programs. Very little has been written
about the Navy's aviation activities in World War I and even less
on the NBG. Standard studies of strategic bombing tend to focus on
developments in the Royal Air Force or the U.S. Army Air Service.
This work concentrates on the origins of strategic bombing in World
War I, and the influence this phenomenon had on the Navy's future
use of the airplane. The NBG program faced enormous logistical and
personnel challenges. Demands for aircraft, facilities, and
personnel were daunting, and shipping shortages added to the
seemingly endless delays in implementing the program. Despite the
impediments, the Navy (and Marine Corps) triumphed over
organizational hurdles and established a series of bases and depots
in northern France and southern England in the late summer and
early fall of 1918. Ironically, by the time the Navy was ready to
commence bombing missions, the German retreat had caused
abandonment of the submarine bases the NBG had been created to
attack. The men involved in this program were pioneers, overcoming
major obstacles only to find they were no longer needed. Though the
Navy rapidly abandoned its use of strategic bombing after World War
I, their brief experimentation directed the future use of aircraft
in other branches of the armed forces. It is no coincidence that
Robert Lovett, the young Navy reserve officer who developed much of
the NBG program in 1918, spent the entire period of World War II as
Assistant Secretary of War for Air where he played a crucial role
organizing and equipping the strategic bombing campaign unleashed
against Germany and Japan. Rossano and Wildenberg have provided a
definitive study of the NBG, a subject that has been overlooked for
too long.
Stalking the U-Boat is the first and only comprehensive study of
U.S. naval aviation operations in Europe during WWI. The navy's
experiences in this conflict laid the foundations for the later
emergence of aviation as a crucial--sometimes dominant--element of
fleet operations, yet those origins have been previously poorly
understood and documented. Begun as antisubmarine operations, naval
aviation posed enormous logistical, administrative, personnel, and
operational problems. How the USN developed this capability--on
foreign soil in the midst of desperate conflict--makes a
fascinating tale sure to appeal to all military and naval
historians.
Hero of the Angry Sky draws on the unpublished diaries,
correspondence, informal memoir, and other personal documents of
the U.S. Navy's only flying \u201cace\u201d of World War I to tell
his unique story. David S. Ingalls was a prolific writer, and
virtually all of his World War I aviation career is covered, from
the teenager's early, informal training in Palm Beach, Florida, to
his exhilarating and terrifying missions over the Western Front.
This edited collection of Ingalls's writing details the career of
the U.S. Navy's most successful combat flyer from that conflict.
While Ingalls's wartime experiences are compelling at a personal
level, they also illuminate the larger, but still relatively
unexplored, realm of early U.S. naval aviation. Ingalls's engaging
correspondence offers a rare personal view of the evolution of
naval aviation during the war, both at home and abroad. There are
no published biographies of navy combat flyers from this period,
and just a handful of diaries and letters in print, the last
appearing more than twenty years ago. Ingalls's extensive letters
and diaries add significantly to historians' store of available
material.
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