Air Wars 1920–1939

Fonthill Media

Air Wars 1920-1939: The Development and Evolution of Fighter Tactics [Hardcover] Philip MacDougall\n\nAir Wars 1920-1939: The Development and Evolution of Fighter Tactics [Hardcover] Philip MacDougall by Philip MacDougall\n\n Spain (1936-9), China (1937 onwards), Mongolia (1939), Finland (1939-40) and France (1939-40) were a testing ground for a new approach to air tactics with western democracies and totalitarian states analyzing the resulting lessons. Attention in 'Air Wars 1920-1939: The Development and Evolution of Fighter Tactics' is given to the means by which intelligence on aerial tactics was collected and why it was not always fully absorbed, resulting in many nations having to relearn the same lessons at the outset of the Second World War. Finland, during the Winter War, while not involved in Spain or any other air war of the time, better applied the lessons being learned than that of the Soviet Union, which had been directly involved in air wars fought over China, Mongolia0