Aspects of Anglo-US co-operation in the air in the First World War

Air & Space Power Journal,  Winter, 2004  by Sebastian Cox

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(19.) Ibid., 19.

(20.) Mitchell's papers are reproduced in Maurer Maurer, ed. and comp., The U.S. Air Service in World War I, vol. 2, Early Concepts of Military Aviation (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1978), 108-11, http:// permanent.access.gpo.gov/airforcehistory/www.airforce history.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/us air service wwl-vol2.pdf. For a flavour of Trenchard's memorandum, see Andrew Boyle, Trenchard (London: Collins, 1962), 186-88.

(21.) Boyle, Trenchard, 300; and Jones, War in the Air, vol. 6, 148-49. The Independent Force was a force of British bomber squadrons established under separate command arrangements from the rest of the British air forces in France and intended to undertake independent strategic operations against Germany. Trenchard was placed in command of the force and reported back to the Air Ministry in London, rather than the British High Command in France. In fact Trenchard allocated far more of his effort to bombing French railways and German aerodromes than he did to attacking targets in Germany. For more on the Independent Force, see Biddle, Rhetoric and Reality, 40-48.

(22.) Jones, War in the Air, vol. 6, 149; and Maurer, vol. 3, The Battle of St. Mihiel, 57-59, http://permanent.access. gpo.gov/airforcehistory/www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/ Publications/fulltext/us_air_service_wwl-vol3.pdf.

(23.) Maurer, vol. 2, Early Concepts, 141. The plan is reproduced in this volume on pages 141-57.

(24.) Biddle, Rhetoric and Reality, 54.

(25.) Ibid., 55.

(26.) Miller, "Tail to Tooth Ratio," 23.

(27.) Ibid., 20.

(28.) Ibid.; and I. B. Holley, Ideas and Weapons: Exploitation of the Aerial Weapon by the United States during World War I (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1953), 144-45.

(29.) Miller, "Tail to Tooth Ratio," 21.

(30.) Holley, Ideas and Weapons, 145.

(31.) Miller, "Tail to Tooth Ratio," 21.

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