Explores the development of the tactics of carrier air power from 1925 and argues that it was U.S. naval personnel who developed the practice of dive bombing, a successful tactic used against the Japa
During the 1920s and 1930s Adm. Joseph Mason Reeves (1878-1948) emerged as the most important flag officer in American naval aviation. He took command of the U.S. Navy's nascent carrier arm during a c
In the immediate post-WWI era, Army General William “Billy” Mitchell advocated air power and the founding of a separate air force, but the military establishment was against him at the time. This work
