"An Honorable Place in American Air Power": Civil Air Patrol Coastal Patrol Operations, 1942-1943
- ISBN-10
- 1585663050
- ISBN-13
- 9781585663057
- Category
- Air defenses
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Author
- Frank A. Blazich
Description
"Military historian and Civil Air Patrol (CAP) member Frank A. Blazich Jr. collects oral and written histories of the CAP's short-lived--but influential--coastal air patrol operations of World War II and expands it in a scholarly monograph that cements the legacy of this vital civil-military cooperative effort"--
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