The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts The Air War The Development of Aircraft During the War
RCC8237
Undarkened Skies The American Aircraft Building Programme of the FIrst World War
by Paul R. Hare
ISBN
9781781556511
Purchase Price
£8.00 (new)
Date Purchased
April 11, 2025
Publisher
Fonthill Media (2017, Barnsley, South Yorks)
Notes
Soon after entering the war in 1917, American propaganda promised that the USA would "darken the skies over Europe" by sending over the "Greatest Aerial Armada ever seen". The promise was to build 22,000 aircraft within a year, and to field a force of 4,000 aircraft. None of this happened, and at the time of the Armistice, only a few hundred machines had arrived. This book is the story of those promises, and their failure.
9781781556511
Purchase Price
£8.00 (new)
Date Purchased
April 11, 2025
Publisher
Fonthill Media (2017, Barnsley, South Yorks)
Notes
Soon after entering the war in 1917, American propaganda promised that the USA would "darken the skies over Europe" by sending over the "Greatest Aerial Armada ever seen". The promise was to build 22,000 aircraft within a year, and to field a force of 4,000 aircraft. None of this happened, and at the time of the Armistice, only a few hundred machines had arrived. This book is the story of those promises, and their failure.