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Quartermaster Airborne Instruction : A History Of The Airborne Courses Of Instruction At The U.S. Army Quartermaster School, Fort Lee, Virginia, From Their Establishment In 1950 To The End Of The Korean War, Thomas Audrey Johnson
Quartermaster Airborne Instruction : A History Of The Airborne Courses Of Instruction At The U.S. Army Quartermaster School, Fort Lee, Virginia, From Their Establishment In 1950 To The End Of The Korean War, Thomas Audrey Johnson
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Since the beginning of time, man has looked to the skies for new ideas, but the first recorded recognition of the value of using air borne troops belongs to an American. The wily Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1784, after observing the Montgolfer brothers balloon, ''Where is the Prince who can afford to cover his country with troops for its defense as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?" The advent of a practical airplane produced a flurry of …