Название: Defending the West - The United States Air Force and European Security 1946-1998
Автор: Eduard Mark
Издательство: Air Force History and Museums Program
ISBN: 1477556621
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 54
Размер: 29,3 МБ
Язык: Английский
The United States Army Air Forces became an independent service, the United States Air Force, in 1947-the second year, supposedly, of “peace.” In reality there had just begun a long conflict between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and the satellite states subject to it. In 1949 the United States and most of the non-Communist countries of Europe signed the North Atlantic Treaty. The United States Air Force, which had been only a token presence on the continent since the end of World War II, once more crossed the Atlantic in strength.