| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Herbert A. Johnson. Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation through World War I. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. xvi, 298. $34.95.

The title of Herbert A. Johnson's book on U.S. army aviation through World War I implies that there were shortcomings in military aviation from its inception to the end of the war. But Johnson's question about American military aviation is much more explicit: "why was the United States so poorly prepared, in equipment and personnel, to engage in aerial combat in World War I?" (p. 1). In his introduction, Johnson states that "in the past, early army aviation, has been cast in a romantic, even nostalgic, aura of achievement and success against the intransigence of the General Staff Corps and the army high command. Considered objectively, this is something of a historically created myth" (p. 8). In successive chapters, Johnson proceeds to destroy any romantic notions one might have about the earliest days of military aviation. . . .

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