The Resource Beneficial Bombing : the Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945
Beneficial Bombing : the Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945
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The item Beneficial Bombing : the Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945 represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
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- Summary
- The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of World War I. Yet for Army Air Service officers, the carnage and waste witnessed on the western front only served to spark a new progressive movement--to reform war by relying on destructive technology as the instrument of change. In Beneficial Bombing Mark Clodfelter describes how American airmen, horrified by World War I's trench warfare, turned to the progressive ideas of efficiency and economy in an effort to reform war itself, with the heavy b
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (390 pages)
- Contents
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- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Source Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Genesis in the Great War; 2. Progressive Prophecy; 3. From Prophecy to Plan; 4. Breaching Fortress Europe, 1942-43; 5. Bludgeoning with Bombs; 6. Fire from the Sky; 7. Progressive Legacies; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Isbn
- 9780803234499
- Label
- Beneficial Bombing : the Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945
- Title
- Beneficial Bombing
- Title remainder
- the Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945
- Subject
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- Air Forces
- Air power
- Air power -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Bombing, Aerial
- Bombing, Aerial -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- Military | Aviation
- History
- Law, Politics & Government
- Military & Naval Science
- Military operations, Aerial
- Precision bombing
- Precision bombing -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- Progressivism (United States politics) -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations
- 1900-1999
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of World War I. Yet for Army Air Service officers, the carnage and waste witnessed on the western front only served to spark a new progressive movement--to reform war by relying on destructive technology as the instrument of change. In Beneficial Bombing Mark Clodfelter describes how American airmen, horrified by World War I's trench warfare, turned to the progressive ideas of efficiency and economy in an effort to reform war itself, with the heavy b
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Clodfelter, Mark
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Studies in War, Society, & the Military
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- World War
- World War
- Bombing, Aerial
- Air power
- Precision bombing
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1939-1945
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- HISTORY
- Air power
- Bombing, Aerial
- Military operations, Aerial
- Precision bombing
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- United States
- Military & Naval Science
- Law, Politics & Government
- Air Forces
- Label
- Beneficial Bombing : the Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Source Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Genesis in the Great War; 2. Progressive Prophecy; 3. From Prophecy to Plan; 4. Breaching Fortress Europe, 1942-43; 5. Bludgeoning with Bombs; 6. Fire from the Sky; 7. Progressive Legacies; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Control code
- ocn699475345
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (390 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780803234499
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 955cecc7-71b3-4a20-b677-78e3b224a69b
- 22573/ctt1dfp14q
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)699475345
- Label
- Beneficial Bombing : the Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Source Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Genesis in the Great War; 2. Progressive Prophecy; 3. From Prophecy to Plan; 4. Breaching Fortress Europe, 1942-43; 5. Bludgeoning with Bombs; 6. Fire from the Sky; 7. Progressive Legacies; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Control code
- ocn699475345
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (390 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780803234499
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 955cecc7-71b3-4a20-b677-78e3b224a69b
- 22573/ctt1dfp14q
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)699475345
Subject
- Air Forces
- Air power
- Air power -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Bombing, Aerial
- Bombing, Aerial -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- Military | Aviation
- History
- Law, Politics & Government
- Military & Naval Science
- Military operations, Aerial
- Precision bombing
- Precision bombing -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- Progressivism (United States politics) -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations
- 1900-1999
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