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...fighters, and the strategic mission. contrast, it gave decreasing attention to the originating function of air power--air observation for the ground operations. There was a sense in the Air Corps that observation aircraft appeared to be obsolescent in the face of increasingly deadly anti-aircraft firepower of European defenses. But other combat arms of the Army continued to demand air observation and technological improvements. Finally in the early war years, airmen relinquished some control to permit creating a small Army aviation organization. Fast forward a few decades to find that organization, now called the Army Aviation...
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