United States Air Force eBook

This title examines the most modern air force in the world, the US Air Force. Readers will learn the history of flight, starting with Orville and Wilbur Wright, and the history of flight in the US Army, starting with Lieutenant Frank Lahm and Lieutenant Benjamin Foulois. This US military used aircraft in conflicts with Mexico, World War I, World War II, using planes to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Cold War against the Soviet Union, the Vietnam War, th...