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Popular passages
Page 37 - OVERY, War and Economy in the Third Reich. Oxford, Clarendon Press 1994.
Page 23 - Ronald Miller and David Sawers, The technical development of modern aviation (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968).
Page 17 - De Blériot à Dassault: Histoire de l'Industrie Aéronautique en France 1900-1950, Paris: Fayard (1987), p. 343, "In May 1940....the French forces employed 23 aircraft types, 38 models in 42 versions....
Page 14 - The role of aviation is apt to be exaggerated, and after the early days of war the wastage will be such that it will more and more be confined to acting as an accessory to the...
Page 21 - Williamson Murray, Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe 1933-1945, Maxwell AFB: Air University Press (1983), pp.