Phillip S Meilinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 259664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phillip S Meilinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phillip S |
| FAMILY NAME | Meilinger |
| SIGNATURE | MEILINGER P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maxwell Air Force Base |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Into the Wild Blue Yonder
War Narratives, unit histories, memoirs, and letters home from the combatants offer good accounts, but they cannot always convey the tension, violence, fear, dedication, futility, and chance that are so a part of war and that are more easily drawn by a good novelist. This review article discusses the ten top air war novels involving the U.S. Air Force (or the U.S. Army Air Forces as it was known during World War II) and the wars in Korea and Viet…
Bomber Harris
Nato's Air War for Kosovo
War Machines
In War Machines, Timothy Moy asks whether entire technological systems can bear the imprint of the institutions that created them. He approaches this question by looking at the U.S. Army Air Corps and the U.S. Marine Corps prior to World War II, and his answer is a resounding "yes."
The Weapons Gap
Force Divider
A Matter of Precision
Sir Frederick Sykes and the Air Revolution, 1912-1918
The Historiography of Airpower
Innovation and the Development of Flight (review)
Americans have always been enamored of technology, seeing it as a solution to a host of problems and challenges, only some of which are technological in origin. For the first half of the twentieth century, aircraft seemed to epitomize this fascination with machines. The Lindbergh flight of 1927 captivated the public imagination, and varying combinations of individuals, governments, businesses, and the military contributed their all to the emergin…
To Fool a Glass Eye
The story of camouflage is not new, and many books have been written on the subject. However, Roy Stanley, himself a former photo interpreter, is [End Page 385] one of the first to tell it from the "camera's point of view." Enhanced by 350 photographs that clearly and graphically prove and illustrate the author's points, this is a very informative and entertaining work. Because both sides were evenly matched, World War II was the golden age of ca…
Managing "Command and Control" in the Persian Gulf War
Wingless Flight
Reviewed by: Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story * Phillip S. Meilinger (bio) Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story. By R. Dale Reed and Darlene Lister. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1997. Pp. xxvi+230; illustrations, notes/references, appendixes, bibliography, index. $25. Lifting bodies are an unusual aerodynamic design that do not possess definable wing or elevator surfaces, relying instead on a flattene…
Clipping the Bomber's Wings
U.S. Air Force Leaders
Fokker
Reviewed by: Fokker: A Transatlantic Biography * Phillip S. Meilinger (bio) Fokker: A Transatlantic Biography. By Marc Dierikx. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. Pp. xi+250; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35. Anthony Fokker was a legendary aircraft designer and manufacturer who built what was arguably the best fighter of World War I (the D.VII) and one of the most famous and popular airliners of the interwar year…
Fokker
Demonic Males
A Forgotten Offensive
The forgotten of the title is RAF Coastal Command's offensive against German sea-trade between 1940 and 1945. The fortunes of the campaign are followed throughout the war, and its success is then evaluated in terms of the shipping sunk, and the impact on the German economy
A Very Short War
Trenchard and "Morale Bombing"
Proselytiser and prophet
The Limits of Safety
Giulio Douhet and modern war
Giulio Douhet has long been acknowledged as one of the world's foremost airpower theorists. His insights into the use of the airplane in war, and his predictions on the form future wars would take, were among the first to be clearly articulated and presented to the public. Yet, he remains an elusive and vaguely understood figure. Only a handful of his many dozens of works have been translated into English, and very little is known about his perso…
Winged Defense
For centuries man has attempted to soften war's effects through moral and legal strictures. Nonetheless, when a nation's survival is at stake, laws and morals are often forgotten. That happened in World War II, and strategic bombing was singled out as being particularly horrible. Unfortunately and for various reasons, attempts to legislate war since then have met with little success. This article argues that the West has not employed airpower eit…
A Matter of Precision
Demonic Males
Winged Defense
For centuries man has attempted to soften war's effects through moral and legal strictures. Nonetheless, when a nation's survival is at stake, laws and morals are often forgotten. That happened in World War II, and strategic bombing was singled out as being particularly horrible. Unfortunately and for various reasons, attempts to legislate war since then have met with little success. This article argues that the West has not employed airpower eit…
The Admirals' Revolt of 1949
The supercarrier/B-36 controversy of 1949 was ostensibly a struggle between the Navy and the Air Force over funding priorities. At the controversy's most basic level, the two services disagreed over the division of the defense budget. The Navy wanted the largest share of the defense dollar in order to build more aircraft carriers, specifically supercarriers, capable of launching large multi-engine aircraft. The Air Force, in turn, argued that it …
American War Plans, 1945-1950
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Journal Article Hoyt S. Vandenberg: The Life of a General. By Phillip S. Meilinger. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. xiv + 279 pp. $27.50.) Get access Stanley L. Falk Stanley L. Falk Alexandria, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1317–1318, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936699 Published: 01 March 1990
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
In this insightful consideration of General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Colonel Phillip Meilinger describes the career of one of the major leaders of the U.S. Air Force. Born in 1899, General Vandenberg's career spanned the interwar years, World War II, the tumultuous postwar years, and the Korean War. Vandenberg served in a variety of important operational as well as staff posts, providing him with an ideal background for positions of great responsibili…
The First Air War, 1914-1918
Giulio Douhet and modern war
Giulio Douhet has long been acknowledged as one of the world's foremost airpower theorists. His insights into the use of the airplane in war, and his predictions on the form future wars would take, were among the first to be clearly articulated and presented to the public. Yet, he remains an elusive and vaguely understood figure. Only a handful of his many dozens of works have been translated into English, and very little is known about his perso…
Winged Defense
For centuries man has attempted to soften war's effects through moral and legal strictures. Nonetheless, when a nation's survival is at stake, laws and morals are often forgotten. That happened in World War II, and strategic bombing was singled out as being particularly horrible. Unfortunately and for various reasons, attempts to legislate war since then have met with little success. This article argues that the West has not employed airpower eit…
The Limits of Safety
Proselytiser and prophet
A Forgotten Offensive
The forgotten of the title is RAF Coastal Command's offensive against German sea-trade between 1940 and 1945. The fortunes of the campaign are followed throughout the war, and its success is then evaluated in terms of the shipping sunk, and the impact on the German economy
A Very Short War
Trenchard and "Morale Bombing"
Demonic Males
U.S. Air Force Leaders
Fokker
Reviewed by: Fokker: A Transatlantic Biography * Phillip S. Meilinger (bio) Fokker: A Transatlantic Biography. By Marc Dierikx. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. Pp. xi+250; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35. Anthony Fokker was a legendary aircraft designer and manufacturer who built what was arguably the best fighter of World War I (the D.VII) and one of the most famous and popular airliners of the interwar year…
Fokker
Managing "Command and Control" in the Persian Gulf War
Wingless Flight
Reviewed by: Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story * Phillip S. Meilinger (bio) Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story. By R. Dale Reed and Darlene Lister. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1997. Pp. xxvi+230; illustrations, notes/references, appendixes, bibliography, index. $25. Lifting bodies are an unusual aerodynamic design that do not possess definable wing or elevator surfaces, relying instead on a flattene…
Clipping the Bomber's Wings
Sir Frederick Sykes and the Air Revolution, 1912-1918
The Historiography of Airpower
Innovation and the Development of Flight (review)
Americans have always been enamored of technology, seeing it as a solution to a host of problems and challenges, only some of which are technological in origin. For the first half of the twentieth century, aircraft seemed to epitomize this fascination with machines. The Lindbergh flight of 1927 captivated the public imagination, and varying combinations of individuals, governments, businesses, and the military contributed their all to the emergin…
To Fool a Glass Eye
The story of camouflage is not new, and many books have been written on the subject. However, Roy Stanley, himself a former photo interpreter, is [End Page 385] one of the first to tell it from the "camera's point of view." Enhanced by 350 photographs that clearly and graphically prove and illustrate the author's points, this is a very informative and entertaining work. Because both sides were evenly matched, World War II was the golden age of ca…
A Matter of Precision
Bomber Harris
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