L’âge d’or de la cavalerie. Sous la direction de Frédéric Chauviré et Bertrand Fonck, Éditions Gallimard/Ministère de la Défense

The observation balloons branch is a little-known specialty of the French army. However, it plays an important role during World War One in intelligence gathering and directing artillery fire. But sterling service does not prevent it to undergo a crisis during the interwar period, mainly for lack of...

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منشور في: 2016
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spelling cairn-RHA_283_0138RHARevue Historique des Armées https://shs.cairn.info/revue-historique-des-armees-2016-2-page-138?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rha.283.0138 L’âge d’or de la cavalerie. Sous la direction de Frédéric Chauviré et Bertrand Fonck, Éditions Gallimard/Ministère de la Défense Bourcart, Jean2016 fre Revue Historique des Armées | 283 | 2 | 2016-01-02 | p. 138-138 | 0035-3299 RHA_28343 The observation balloons branch is a little-known specialty of the French army. However, it plays an important role during World War One in intelligence gathering and directing artillery fire. But sterling service does not prevent it to undergo a crisis during the interwar period, mainly for lack of sufficient funds. The ballooning observation, a part first of the Engineer corps then of the Air Force, has an organization, staffing, hardware, employment doctrine of its own. General Paul Bienvenue, one of the first balloonists, keeps alerting his superiors on the poor state of the branch in the years 1920-1940, without success. Lacking modernization, it is debilitated when embarking on the 1940 campaign, before collapsing under the blows of the Luftwaffe.Cairn free access
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description The observation balloons branch is a little-known specialty of the French army. However, it plays an important role during World War One in intelligence gathering and directing artillery fire. But sterling service does not prevent it to undergo a crisis during the interwar period, mainly for lack of sufficient funds. The ballooning observation, a part first of the Engineer corps then of the Air Force, has an organization, staffing, hardware, employment doctrine of its own. General Paul Bienvenue, one of the first balloonists, keeps alerting his superiors on the poor state of the branch in the years 1920-1940, without success. Lacking modernization, it is debilitated when embarking on the 1940 campaign, before collapsing under the blows of the Luftwaffe.
author Bourcart, Jean
spellingShingle Bourcart, Jean
L’âge d’or de la cavalerie. Sous la direction de Frédéric Chauviré et Bertrand Fonck, Éditions Gallimard/Ministère de la Défense
author_facet Bourcart, Jean
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title L’âge d’or de la cavalerie. Sous la direction de Frédéric Chauviré et Bertrand Fonck, Éditions Gallimard/Ministère de la Défense
title_short L’âge d’or de la cavalerie. Sous la direction de Frédéric Chauviré et Bertrand Fonck, Éditions Gallimard/Ministère de la Défense
title_full L’âge d’or de la cavalerie. Sous la direction de Frédéric Chauviré et Bertrand Fonck, Éditions Gallimard/Ministère de la Défense
title_fullStr L’âge d’or de la cavalerie. Sous la direction de Frédéric Chauviré et Bertrand Fonck, Éditions Gallimard/Ministère de la Défense
title_full_unstemmed L’âge d’or de la cavalerie. Sous la direction de Frédéric Chauviré et Bertrand Fonck, Éditions Gallimard/Ministère de la Défense
title_sort l’âge d’or de la cavalerie. sous la direction de frédéric chauviré et bertrand fonck, éditions gallimard/ministère de la défense
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