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- Title
Flying Training: The American Advantage in the Battle for Air Superiority against the Luftwaffe.
- Authors
Werrell, Kenneth P.
- Abstract
The article discusses the role that the training of the Army Air Forces (AAF) pilots played in U.S. air power over the German Air Force (GAF), or Luftwaffe, during World War II. An overview of the training AAF pilots in aerial gunnery, including AAF Training Command's perspective that it was the weakest dimension of its training program, is provided.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AIR pilots; UNITED States. Army Air Forces (1942-1947); AIR power (Military science); GERMANY. Luftwaffe; WORLD War II American aerial operations; WORLD War II German aerial operations; AERIAL gunnery; COMMAND of troops; TWENTIETH century; TRAINING; HISTORY
- Publication
Air Power History, 2014, Vol 61, Issue 1, p34
- ISSN
1044-016X
- Publication type
Article