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This is the exciting story of the development of U.S. airmobile
power from theory to practice, involving air transport, fixed wing
aircraft, and attack helicopters culminating in Vietnam War
operations. It includes analysis of airmobile combat operations;
doctrinal and interservice disputes; equipment descriptions; and
the organization of combat and support units. It also includes data
about airmobility in South Vietnam's army and it features personal
reflections of the author, who was at the center of airmobility
development and who commanded large airmobile units. John J. Tolson
in June 1939 participated in the first tactical air movement of
ground forces by the U.S. Army. He was in all combat jumps of the
503d Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II, became an
Army aviator in 1957, and served as Director of Army Aviation and
Commandant of the Army Aviation School. From April 1967 to July
1968 he commanded the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), Vietnam.
(Includes many maps and photographs)
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Airmobility 1961-1971 (Paperback)
John J. Tolson, United States. Department of the Army Allocations Committee, Ammunition
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Discovery Miles 8 270
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First published in 1973. From the preface: "The purpose of this
study is to trace the evolution of airmobility in the U.S. Army.
The integration of aircraft into the organic structure of the
ground forces is as radical a change as the move from the horse to
the truck, and the process is only beginning. Because this change
is not the product of one man or one small group of men but rather
a fortunate confluence of technology, tactics, and imagination,
proper credit to every responsible individual is impossible. I have
tried to identify some of those people who made a major
contribution throughout the years. Although Vietnam was the first
large combat test of airmobility, air assault operations in
Southeast Asia would not have been possible without certain key
decisions a decade earlier. This study attempts to trace the most
important milestones which led to the eventual formation of
airmobile divisions."
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