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Author Blazich, Frank A., Jr., author.

Title "An honorable place in American air power" : Civil Air Patrol coastal patrol operations, 1942-1943 / Frank A. Blazich, Jr.

Publication Info. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama : Air University Press, 2020.
©2020

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 Axe Archives Fed Docs  D 301.26/6:C 49/2    ---  Available
Description xvi, 239 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-234) and index.
Summary "Military historian and Civil Air Patrol (CAP) member Frank A. Blazich Jr. collects oral and written histories of the CAP's short-lived--but influential--coastal air patrol operations of World War II and expands it in a scholarly monograph that cements the legacy of this vital civil-military cooperative effort"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Frank Blazich, Jr. © 11 February 2020 -- V5.5 2020
Contents Origins of the Civil Air Patrol -- Paukenschlag and the CAP Experiment -- Learning and expansion -- From Main to Mexico -- Challenges and transitions -- Past reflections and future possibilities.
Subject United States. Civil Air Patrol -- History.
Air defenses -- United States -- History.
Civil defense -- United States -- History.
Anti-submarine warfare -- United States -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
United States. Civil Air Patrol. (OCoLC)fst00522149
Air defenses. (OCoLC)fst00802341
Anti-submarine warfare. (OCoLC)fst00810366
Civil defense. (OCoLC)fst00862456
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Air University (U.S.). Press, issuing body.
Added Title Civil Air Patrol coastal patrol operations, 1942-1943
ISBN 9781585663057 (paperback)
1585663050
9781585663057 (Adobe PDF)
Gpo Item No. 0422-K
Sudoc No. D 301.26/6:C 49/2

 
    
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