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United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report (European War) (12314 words) |
 | Air power in the European phase of this war reached a stage of full adolescence, a stage marked by rapid development in planes, armament, equipment, tactics and concepts of strategic employment, and by an extraordinary increase in the effort allocated to it by all the major contestants. |
| The air force was, primarily, an arm of the blitzkrieg. |
| The casualty effects of air action are shown by the fact that the proportion of wounded to killed shifted from a ratio of eight to one in 1940 and 1941 to a ratio of three to one in 1944 and 1945. |
| Eighth Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3418 words) |
| During the war the Eighth Air Force was headquartered in England at the Wycombe Abbey School for Girls, Buckinghamshire. |
| Eighth Air Force was relieved from assignment to Strategic Air Command and assigned to the new Air Combat Command (ACC) on 1 June 1992. |
| United States Air Force in the United Kingdom |
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