Author : Charles F.G. Kuyk, Jr.
Release : 2020-06-15
Genre : History
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West Point Graduates and the United States Air Force - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook West Point Graduates and the United States Air Force write by Charles F.G. Kuyk, Jr.. This book was released on 2020-06-15. West Point Graduates and the United States Air Force available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. West Point graduates played a central role in developing U.S. military air and space power from the earliest days of mechanized flight through the establishment of the U.S. Air Force in 1947, and continuing through the Persian Gulf War. These graduates served at a time when the world's greatest wave of technological advancement occurred: in aviation, nuclear weapons, rocketry, ICBMs, computers, satellite systems in inner space and man in outer space. This history traces the advancement of weapons and space technology that became the hallmark of the U.S. Air Force, and the pivotal role that West Point graduates played in integrating them into a wide variety of Air Force systems and programs. Many became aircraft commanders, test pilots, astronauts and, later in their careers, general officers who helped shape and implement technologies still in use today.