Des liquidations aux reconversions. L’Humain entre grandeur et décadence

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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Autor principal: Naudet, Jean-Louis
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Publicat: 2020
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spelling cairn-RHA_299_0127RHARevue Historique des Armées https://shs.cairn.info/revue-historique-des-armees-2020-2-page-127?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rha.299.0127 Des liquidations aux reconversions. L’Humain entre grandeur et décadence Naudet, Jean-Louis2020 fre Revue Historique des Armées | 299 | 2 | 2020-01-02 | p. 127-133 | 0035-3299 RHA_29979 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 restricted 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 Naudet, Jean-Louis
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Des liquidations aux reconversions. L’Humain entre grandeur et décadence
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title Des liquidations aux reconversions. L’Humain entre grandeur et décadence
title_short Des liquidations aux reconversions. L’Humain entre grandeur et décadence
title_full Des liquidations aux reconversions. L’Humain entre grandeur et décadence
title_fullStr Des liquidations aux reconversions. L’Humain entre grandeur et décadence
title_full_unstemmed Des liquidations aux reconversions. L’Humain entre grandeur et décadence
title_sort des liquidations aux reconversions. l’humain entre grandeur et décadence
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