19: Frank Blazich - Civil Air Patrol vs. the U-Boats

01/10/2021 28 min
19: Frank Blazich - Civil Air Patrol vs. the U-Boats

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During World War II, the Civil Air Patrol conducted anti-submarine operations, including giving civilian volunteer pilots the authority to drop bombs on enemy targets. To tell us about the role CAP played in the war, we're joined by Dr. Frank A. Blazich, curator of modern military history at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and author of “An Honorable Place in American Air Power”: Civil Air Patrol Coastal Patrol
Operations, 1942–1943 from Air University Press.
The book is available for free here: https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/AUPress/Display/Article/2440096/an-honorable-place-in-american-air-power-civil-air-patrol-coastal-patrol-operat/

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