U.s. Air Force A Complete History Book

The indomitable spirit and courage of America's flyers goes back to the Wright Brothers' first flights in 1903. Since then, Billy Mitchell, Jimmy Doolittle, Chuck Yeager, and countless other men and women have answered America's call to defend the nation and its allies from the sky. Now, more than 50 years after its founding, the United States Air Force is celebrated in a stunning, lavishly illustrated volume published in conjunction with the Air Force Historical Foundation. Building on official Air Force chronologies, and containing more than 500 color and 1,000 black-and-white photographs, the book presents an encyclopedic, year-by-year summary of Air Force activities, from the early years of flight to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Key historical entries, as well as significant operations, technological advances, and the people instrumental in shaping the Air Force, are featured in expanded sidebar articles written by experts in each subject.