Alexander P. De Seversky (1894–1974)
Autor de Victory Through Air Power
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Library of Congress
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- Nombre canónico
- De Seversky, Alexander P.
- Nombre legal
- De Seversky, Alexander Procofieff
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1894-06-07
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1974-08-24
- Lugar de sepultura
- Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Russia
USA - Lugares de residencia
- Tbilisi, Georgia (Tiflis, Russia)
New York, New York, USA - Educación
- Russian Naval Academy
Military School of Aeronautics, Sebastopol, Crimea - Ocupaciones
- aviator
- Organizaciones
- New York Institute of Technology (trustee)
US Army Air Corps Reserve
Seversky Aero Corporation - Premios y honores
- Harmon Trophy 1939
Medal of Merit 1945 from President Harry Truman
Exceptional Service Medal 1969
Enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame 1970
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- 3
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 221
- Popularidad
- #101,335
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 2
Seversky explained his theories of aviation and long-range bombing as influenced by General Billy Mitchell. Seversky argued that:
1. "The rapid expansion of the range and striking power of military aviation makes it certain that the United States will be as exposed to destruction from the air, within a predictable period, as are the British Isles today;"
2. Those who deny this possibility are exhibiting something like a "Maginot line mentality";
3. The U.S. must begin preparing immediately for "an interhemispheric war direct across oceans;"
4. The U.S. must become the dominant air-power nation, "even as England in its prime was the dominant sea-power nation of the world."… (más)