James S. Corum

Bloody April 1917 (eBook, ePUB)

The birth of modern air power
Illustrator: Turner, Graham

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Researched from original-language primary sources, this is a uniquely well-informed and multi-faceted history of the World War I air campaign of Bloody April.

Researched from original German-, French-, and English-language sources, and written by an authority on both air and ground military operations, author, Dr James S Corum examines how Bloody April caused Allied forces to reassess their approach to the use of airpower. Considering well-known problems such as technology and training doctrine, but also how the artillery-aircraft combination ideally had to work in late-WW I ground offensives, Dr Corum analyses what each side got wrong and why. He describes little-known parts of the April campaigns, such as both sides' use of strategic bombing with heavy aircraft, and considers the German use of advanced high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft with oxygen and heated suits while detailing the exploits of the infamous 'Red Baron', Manfred von Richthofen.

Lessons from Bloody April not only served to improve the coordination of Allied artillery and aircraft but subsequently aircraft played a much larger role in supporting ground troops in attack mode.

Bloody April paved the way for the airpower revolution that, by 1918, would make the Allies masters of the sky on the Western Front.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472853042
• Artikelnr.: 64355455

Autorenporträt

Dr James S. Corum is an internationally recognized expert on military airpower and counter-insurgency. Recently retired from two decades of teaching at leading Western defense colleges, he has also served as a strategic planner and is a retired US Army lieutenant colonel with an intelligence background. An award-winning author of 15 books and more than 70 major journal articles and book chapters, he is now an independent historian and consultant, and lives in Alabama.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION CHRONOLOGY ATTACKER'S CAPABILITIES The Entente air services in
1917 The French Service Aéronautique in the Nivelle Offensive The Royal
Flying Corps Senior commanders Army air commanders British RFC brigade
commanders DEFENDER'S CAPABILITIES The Luftstreitkräfte: German Imperial
Air Service Luftstreitkräfte organization in the 1917 campaign German
aircraft Senior commanders German Army aviation commanders AIRPOWER IN 1917
The eyes of the big guns Aircraft and the artillery Fixed balloons and the
artillery The artillery flyers Lessons from the Verdun and Somme campaigns
Lessons from the Somme: July-November, 1916 Air services and aircraft
production Aircraft attrition - the problem of quality control Training for
the air services Fighter tactics Squadron tactics CAMPAIGN OBJECTIVES The
Nivelle Offensive The strategic situation in early 1917 THE CAMPAIGN Bloody
April March 1917: Germans withdraw to the Siegfriedstellung Preparing the
Nivelle Offensive Air operations prior to the offensive The French front
Attacking the balloons The air campaign prior to the British attack The
Arras sector: the RFC's bombing campaign The attack at Vimy Ridge and
Arras, 9-14 April The British offensive continues, 10 April-4 May Arras
Front, 11 April-4 May Battle on the Chemin des Dames Front Chemin des Dames
Front, 18 April-4 May The French Army mutinies Losses and lessons for the
air campaigns of April 1917 AFTERMATH AND ANALYSIS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX