West Point Graduates and the United States Air Force
West Point graduates played a central role in developing U.S. military air and space power from the earliest days of mechanized flight through the establishment of the U.S. Air Force in 1947, and continuing through the Persian Gulf War. These graduates served at a time when the world''s greatest wave of technological advancement occurred: in aviation, nuclear weapons, rocketry, ICBMs, computers...
West Point graduates played a central role in developing U.S. military air and space power from the earliest days of mechanized flight through the establishment of the U.S. Air Force in 1947, and continuing through the Persian Gulf War. These graduates served at a time when the world''s greatest wave of technological advancement occurred: in aviation, nuclear weapons, rocketry, ICBMs, computers...
