Air Force: Magazine of American Air Power (11 Issue Set)

James H. Straubel (Editor); James Doolittle; Everett E. Dodd; Arthur F. Kelly

U.S. Army Air Force, 1952

Personal Copy of General Ira C. Eaker. 11 issue set bound in blue cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Edges rubbed. Corners bumped. Original wraps bound in. Stamped on edge and front end pages. Ira C. Eaker Board of Directors stamped in gilt on front board. Issues included Oct. 1952 - Sept. 1953 in sequential. Interesting articles in this collection: Airpower vs. the Dead Hand of Tradition by James H. Doolittle; Under the A-Bomb Shield by General Hoyt S. Vandenberg; Know Your Enemy by Arthur F. Kelly; Underground Air Force by Arne Thoren; What It means to be a Red Jet Pilot by Lt. Franciszek Jarecki; NATO Air Age or Stone Age by Garrett Underhill; These Mosquitoes Slap Back by Capt. Jack Jordan. 

"Ira Eaker became a pilot in 1918. As a general, he was the Eighth Air Force's first commander. From February 1942 he faced the difficult task of beginning the bombing campaign against Germany, working with his British allies. Eaker believed that bombing would shorten the war and save lives: 'I would be certain,' he said after the war, 'that if we had not had strategic bombing, perhaps a million men would have died that lived through that struggle.' In January 1944 he moved to take overall command of Allied air power in the Mediterranean. He became Deputy Commanding General of the USAAF in 1945, retiring two years later." - American Air Museum 

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