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Army Airmobile and Air Mobility: Articles & Documents

Journal Articles avialable in Aviation Center Library only

Adkins, Jeffrey.  “The U.S. Cavalry was reborn in the Vietnam War, this time riding helicopters rather than horses into battle.”  Vietnam 38, no. 10 (Oct 1992): 8, 67-70.  (Copy in Vertical Files)

Alberich, Michael M. “Army's first airmobile operation.” Aviation Digest 38, no. 10 (May – June 1993): 50-54.  (Copy in Vertical Files)

Baird, John R. “Escort of airmobile formations.” Aviation Digest 11, no. 5 (May 1965): 2-4.  (Copy in Vertical Files)

Bergman, Philip S. “Lebanon report: mobility through helicopters.” Aviation Digest 4, no.12 (Dec 1958): 4-6.  (Hardcopy in Avn Tech Library)

Brand, William F. “Airmobile firepower: hallmark of the 1st Cavalry Division.” Aviation Digest 13, no. 3 (March 1967): 18-23.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

“Defense against airmobile operations.” Aviatioin Digest 13, no. 9 (Sept 1967): 14-18 (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Gavin, James “Cavalry, and I don't mean horses.” Harper’s (April 1954): 54-60.  (Copy in Vertical Files)

Gavin, James. “The Mobility Differential.” Army 13, no 6 (June 1963): 34-36.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Hilbert, Marquis D. “Use of Army Aviation in counterinsurgency operations.”  Aviation Digest 8, no. 10 (Oct 1962): 3-9.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Howze, Hamilton H. “Airmobility becomes more than a theory:  Howze Board II.” Army 24, no 3 (March 1974): 18-24.  (Copy in Vertical Files)

Howze, Hamilton H. “Howze Board: first of three articles.” Army 24, no 2 (Feb 1974): 8-14.  (Copy in Vertical Files)

Howze, Hamilton H. “Winding up a Great Show: Howze Board III.” Army 24, no 4 (April 1974): 18-24.  (Copy in Vertical Files)

Howze, Hamilton H. “Army Aviation 1955-1962: The foundation of air mobility.” Army Aviation 41, no. 12 (Dec 1992): 26-34.  (Copy in Vertical Files)

Johnson, David L.  “Battlefield artillery airmobility concepts.” Aviation Digest 11, no. 7 (July 1965): 8-11.  (Copy in Vertical Files)

Kinnard, Harry.  “Battlefield mobility of new U.S. 1st Cavalry Division.” NATOS 15 Nations 11, no. 2 (Apr-May 1966): 38-45.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)                              

Kinnard, Harry W. D.  “A victory in the Ia Drang: the triumph of a concept.”  Army 17, no.9 (Sept 1967): 71-91.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Kinnard, Harry W. D.  “Airmobility Revisited, Part 1.”  Aviation Digest 26, no. 6 (June 1980): 1-5, 26-27.  Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Kinnard, Harry W. D.  “Airmobility Revisited, Part 2.”  Aviation Digest 26, no. 7 (July 1980): 8-14.  Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Kutta, Timothy J. “Battle in the Ia Drang.”  Strategy & Tacts 173 (Mar-Apr 1995): 18-24.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Lenderman, Bob.  “Airmobile tactics and techniques.” Aviation Digest 11, no.1 (Jan 1965): 2-6.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Leonard, Steven M.  “One man's vision: the evolution of airmobile artillery.” Field Artillery (July-Aug 1999): 24-28.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Mauldin, Bruce P.  “Double-header airmobile operations in Vietnam.”  Aviation Digest 11, no. 8 (Aug 1965): 27-29.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

McClellan, Thomas L.  “Operation Bumblebee: How the U.S. Marine Corps developed airmobile Tactics during the Korean War.”  Aviation Digest 34, no. 6 (June 1988): 38-44.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

McMahon, Robert E.  “Airmobile operations.” Military Review 39, no. 3 (June 1959): 28-35.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

McMahon, Robert E.  “Keeping Pace on the Future:  Air Mobility for Army Forces” Military Review 38, no. 4 (July 1958): 49-62.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

McNamara, Robert S.  “The Prospects for Army Air Mobility.”  Army 13, no. 3 (March 1963): 20-21.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Mertel, Kenneth D.  “Find the enemy airmobile style.”  Aviation Digest 13, no. 8 (Aug 1967):  2-7. (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Miller, Maurice G. “Crusade for airmobility.”  Aviation Digest 13, no. 7 (July 1967): 13-16.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Moore, Perry.  “Warfare in motion: evolution of the airmobile concept.”  Strategy & Tactics 173 (March-April 1995): 25-27.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Moore, Perry.  “Operation Pegasus:a classic U.S. airmobile operation of the Vietnam War.”  Strategy & Tactics 175 (July-Aug 1995): 43-50.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Myers, Joe B.  “Soviet airmobility.”  Aviation Digest 17, no. 9 (Sept 1971): 1-5.  Strategy & Tactics 173 (March-April 1995): 25-27.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Oden, Delk M.  “The Army and air mobility.”  Military Review 42, no. 10 (Oct 1962): 57-63.  (Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Pickett, George B., Jr.  “The Army's tactical mobility concept.”  Aviation Digest 10, no. 11 (Nov 1964):  1-5.  Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Poe, Perry.  “How's air mobility?”  Army 13, no. 11 (June 1963): 25-28, 88-92.  Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Richardson, William R.  “Airmobility in the 1980s.”  Aviation Digest 27, no. 8  (Aug 1981): 2-5, 26.  Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Shea, G.H.  “From horses to helicopters.”  Aviation Digest 1, no. 5 (May 1955): 12-17, 35. Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Stanton, Shelby L.  “Lessons learned or lost: air cavalry & airmobility.”  Military Review 69, no. 1 (Jan 1989):  74-86.  Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Wheeler, Earle G.  “Airmobility.”  Aviation Digest 9, no. 10 (Oct 1963): 2-5.  Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

Williams, Howard M.  “Training:  the key to airmobile operations.”  Aviation Digest 12, no. 12 (Dec 1966):  20-23.  Copy only available at Avn Tech Library)

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