Les manufactures d’armes du château de Vincennes au XVIIIe siècle

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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Auteur principal: Champonnois, Sylvain
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Publié: 2021
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spelling cairn-RHA_302_0003RHARevue Historique des Armées https://shs.cairn.info/revue-historique-des-armees-2021-1-page-3?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rha.302.0003 Les manufactures d’armes du château de Vincennes au XVIIIe siècle Champonnois, Sylvain2021 fre Revue Historique des Armées | 302 | 1 | 2021-01-01 | p. 3-14 | 0035-3299 RHA_30295 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 Champonnois, Sylvain
spellingShingle Champonnois, Sylvain
Les manufactures d’armes du château de Vincennes au XVIIIe siècle
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author_sort Champonnois, Sylvain
title Les manufactures d’armes du château de Vincennes au XVIIIe siècle
title_short Les manufactures d’armes du château de Vincennes au XVIIIe siècle
title_full Les manufactures d’armes du château de Vincennes au XVIIIe siècle
title_fullStr Les manufactures d’armes du château de Vincennes au XVIIIe siècle
title_full_unstemmed Les manufactures d’armes du château de Vincennes au XVIIIe siècle
title_sort les manufactures d’armes du château de vincennes au xviiie siècle
publishDate 2021
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