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Wings over the Mexican Border
Kenneth B. Ragsdale
其他書名
Pioneer Military Aviation in the Big Bend
出版University of Texas Press, 2010-07-05
主題History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)History / Military / Aviation & SpaceHistory / Military / United States
ISBN02927878129780292787810
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6U7v7zDkU9cC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A Texas historian reveals how a borderland ranch became the proving ground for American combat aviation and a flashpoint for US-Mexico relations.
 
Against a backdrop of revolution, border banditry, freewheeling aerial dramatics, and World War II, Kenneth B. Ragsdale tells the story of Elmo Johnson’s Big Bend ranch in southwestern Texas. This remote airfield is where hundreds of young Army Air Corps pilots demonstrated the US military’s reconnaissance and emergency response capabilities and, in so doing, dramatized the changing role of the airplane as an instrument of war and peace.
 
Ragsdale vividly portrays the development of the US aerial strike force; the men who would go on to become combat leaders; and especially Elmo Johnson himself, the Big Bend rancher, trader, and rural sage who emerges as the dominant figure at one of the most unusual facilities in the annals of the Air Corps.
 
Ragsdale also examines how these aerial escapades effected border tensions. He provides a reflective look at US–Mexican relations from the 1920s through the 1940s, paying special attention to the tense days during and after the Escobar Rebellion of 1929. Wings over the Mexican Border tells a stirring story of the American frontier juxtaposed with the new age of aerial technology.