David R. Mets
Auteur van Master of Airpower: General Carl A. Spaatz
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Fotografie: David R. Mets [credit: Maxwell Air Force Base]
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- Dr. David R. Mets (USNA; MA, Columbia University; PhD, University of Denver) is a professor emeritus at Air University’s School of Advanced Air and Space Studies and a military defense analyst at the Air Force Research Institute, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. He studied naval history at the US Naval Academy and taught the history of airpower at both the Air Force Academy and West Point. During his 30-year career in the Navy and Air Force, he served as a tanker pilot, an instructor navigator in strategic airlift, and a commander of an AC-130 squadron in Southeast Asia. On another tour there, he was an aircraft commander for more than 900 tactical-airlift sorties. A former editor of Air University Review, Dr. Mets is the author of Master of Airpower: General Carl A. Spaatz (Presidio, 1988) and four other books.
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Master of Airpower: General Carl A. Spaatz door David R. Mets
The story of Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz’s life is more than a biography of one of America’s great military leaders. It is a history of the development of airpower, and a fascinating, inside look at the long, difficult struggle to win autonomy for the U.S. Air Force. Spaatz earned his wings in 1918, when flying was a new and dangerous occupation; aviation school mortality rates were 18 percent. After gaining experience as a fighter pilot during the “Great War,” he became one of the Air Corps’ top pursuit commanders during the 1920s. During the 1930s, he moved over to bombers just as modern, long range aircraft were coming into service.… (meer)
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