Abstract
In 1918 the Royal Air Force (RAF), and to a lesser degree the United States Army Air Service (USAAS), practiced air support operations with effect on the western front. However, during the interwar years most senior British and American air commanders purposely overlooked their value. Attempts by the British and American armies to absorb aviation for their own purposes worsened the situation and crippled preparation for air support. When war came, neither the RAF nor the United States Army Air Forces (as the Air Service and later the Air Corps became known in 1941) were prepared to provide air support operations as they had been in 1918. Some elements of air support were understood between the wars, but neither force had a fully developed doctrine, nor much practice in conducting such operations.
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