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Eagles Overhead: The History of US Air Force Airborne Forward Air Controllers, from the Muese-Argonne to Mosul

Description: Eagles Overhead provides a critical history of US Air Force Forward Air Controllers and examines their role, status, and performance in the Air Force's history. It begins by examining the US's initial adoption of air power, and American participation in aerial combat during World War I and traces the FACs' contributions to every US Air Force air campaign from the Marne in 1918 to Mosul in 2017. However, since 2001 FACs' contributions have been sporadic. Eagles Overhead asks why, despite the cri… more
Date: August 2020
Creator: Dietz, J. Matthew
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Reactions and Learning as Predictors of Job Performance in a United States Air Force Technical Training Program

Description: This study is based on Kirkpatrick's (1996) four level evaluation model. The study assessed the correlation between and among three levels of data that resulted from evaluation processes used in the U.S. Air Force technical training. The three levels of evaluation included trainee reaction (Level 1), test scores (Level 2), and job performance (Level 3). Level 1 data was obtained from the results of a 20 item survey that employed a 5-point Likert scale rating. Written test scores were used for L… more
Date: December 1999
Creator: Boyd, Steven W.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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DCE Bio Detection System Final Report

Description: The DCE (DNA Capture Element) Bio-Detection System (Biohound) was conceived, designed, built and tested by PNNL under a MIPR for the US Air Force under the technical direction of Dr. Johnathan Kiel and his team at Brooks City Base in San Antonio Texas. The project was directed toward building a measurement device to take advantage of a unique aptamer based assay developed by the Air Force for detecting biological agents. The assay uses narrow band quantum dots fluorophores, high efficiency fluo… more
Date: December 1, 2007
Creator: Lind, Michael A.; Batishko, Charles R.; Morgen, Gerald P.; Owsley, Stanley L.; Dunham, Glen C.; Warner, Marvin G. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Script: F-111]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Australian military buying 6 F-111 planes from the US.
Date: March 15, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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From Wright Field, Ohio, to Hokkaido, Japan: General Curtis E. LeMay's Letters to His Wife Helen, 1941–1945

Description: In 1942, Colonel Curtis E. LeMay and his 305th Bomb Group left Syracuse, New York, bound for England, where they joined the Eighth Air Force and Royal Air Force in war against Germany and her allies. Over the next three years LeMay led American air forces in Europe, India, China, and the Pacific against the Axis powers. His efforts yielded advancement through the chain of command to the rank of Major General in command of the XXIst Bomber Command, the most effective strategic bombing force of t… more
Date: 2015
Creator: Hegi, Benjamin Paul & Hurley, Alfred F.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: GD-F-16]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story. This story aired at 5pm.
Date: February 12, 1993, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 51 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Spy]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of court papers which are made public revealed that the First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in New York which was involved in an espionage rendezvous with US Air Force Sergeant.
Date: August 21, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Plane fire truck wreckage cleared]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a collision between an airplane and a fire truck at Carswell Air Force Base. Robert E. Keilman was killed, and two others were injured.
Date: October 30, 1956
Duration: 23 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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