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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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...chool of Advanced AirpowerStudies, Air University, the U.S. Air Force, or the Department of Defense. In accordance withAir Force Regulation 110-8, it ... ...ls George C. Kenney and Ennis C. Whitehead became the two seniorcommanders of the US Fifth Air Force in July 1942 their work was cut out for them. The... ...y 1942 their work was cut out for them. Theprevious January, the Japanese secured the port of Rabaul in eastern New Britain. Theyimmediately began the... ...mining two air campaigns. From March 3rd-5th, 1943, during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, twelve shipscontaining the bulk of the Japanese 51st Div... ...y one transport and one cargo ship was sunk. September was worse. Outof 425 bombs dropped, only nine ships were hit and only one cargo ship was sunk r... ...liminate the need to calculate the ricochet distance, they timed their release tohit the side of the ships, instead of bouncing short. This method was... ...eavy equipment and cargo aircraft, engineers made sure dust was raised,fires started, and grass huts built to picque the interest of the Japanese.12 T... ...ill,” in Directory of American Military Biography, Volume II, H-P, ed. Roger J. Spiller, (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1984), 553.30 Lear... ...ill.” In Directory of American Militarv Biography. Volume II. H-P, ed. Robert J. Spiller. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1984.Kahn, David. T...

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...Chapter 23. The Astonishing Discovery From the alternations of the good and bad seasons in the lives of the famous people we’ve seen in this book, very important observations are extracted. We start with Beethoven’s alternations of good and bad seasons. As we’ve seen in Chapter 1, his good and bad seasons altern...

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...1 THE INFANCY OF AIRPOWER. . . . . . . . . .3 2 NAVAL AVIATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 AIRPOWER IN WORLD WAR I . . . . . . . . . 11 4 LAYING THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS, 1919–1931 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5 AN AGE OF INNOVATION, 1931–1941 . . . . 19 6 NAVAL AVIATION BETWEEN THE WARS . . . .23 7 ...

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...IATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 AIRPOWER IN WORLD WAR I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...ESE AIRPOWER . . . . . . . . . . 61 15 WORLD WAR II: PACIFIC—THE USAAF IN THE SOUTHWEST. . . . . 67 16 WORLD WAR II: CE... ...R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 20 NAVAL AVIATION IN THE KOREAN WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 21 ... ...but they were costly and didnot succeed. Wind tunnels were developed, and the Wrights built one of their own thatwas effective. Some innovators like O... ... and taking off on vessels before the war, itdid not bring its aircraft to sea aboard ships during the conflict. The British navy led theway on that. ... ...cs immediately after its creation in 1921. Having served as executive officer on both ships in the 1920s, in the 1930s Whiting commanded the first Ame... ...raft was harder to generatethan imagined. In the end, the only American-designed and -built aircraft to arrive inEurope were small Curtiss flying boat... ... arrive inEurope were small Curtiss flying boats. Even the British-designed, American-built DH-4sarrived only in the last weeks of the war, and there ... ... came into office in 1933, and his administration startedadditional spending on naval ships and on infrastructure improvements on Army andNavy bases u...

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...pal object throughout has been to estimate the importance ofthose elements in modern British life which are chiefly due to purelyEnglish or Low-Dutch ... ...the old British bards, from _Beowulf_, from thelaws, and from the charters in the "Codex Diplomaticus." These writtendocuments have been helped out by... ...ped out by some personal study of the actualearly English relics preserved in various museums, and by the indirectevidence of local nomenclature.Among... ... by the uncertain name of Aryans. These Aryanswere a fair-skinned and well-built people, long past the stage ofaboriginal savagery, and possessed of a... ...hepart of the Low German peoples. 17The piratical ships of the early English were row-boats of very simpleconstruction. We ac... ...ch the descents upon the British coastwere first made. The craft is rudely built of oaken boards, and isseventy feet long by nine broad. The stem and ... ...axon came to Britain also with the suspiciouslysymmetrical number of three ships. With him came his three sons,Kymen, Wlencing, and Cissa. These names... ...n 495 "came twain aldermen toBritain, Cerdic and Cynric his son, with five ships, at that place that iscleped Cerdices ora, and fought that ilk day wi... ...eSleswick flats seem wholly to have laid aside their seafaring habits.They built no more ships, apparently; for many years after BishopWilfrith had to...

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...“Brave Men is a collection of Pyle’s newspaper columns from 1943 and 1944, in which he details the fighting in Europe primarily from the perspective of the common U.S. G.I. This angle of reporting brought the front-line war back to the families of those serving in the armed forces and endeared Pyle ...

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