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
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
