Interwar Marine Aviation, Royal Navy Versus Japan, Early U.S. Battleships and British Gunboats

摘要

Between the two world wars, the Marine Corps fought several insurrections in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and China and pioneered the use of aircraft in numerous roles that demonstrated the role of airpower in small wars. This book chronicles the Corps' development of close air support and dive bombing as effective ways for aviators to support ground forces. The Corps also used aircraft as personnel transports, for medical and casualty evacuation, humanitarian relief and civic duties such as election support of fledgling democracies. The lessons learned stood Marine aviation leadership in good stead as they applied them in support of Marine grunts in World War II and beyond.