The History of U.S. Military Air Power - Season 1

This video chronicles the incredible advances Air Power made during World War II including Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid, and introduces a generation of remarkable leaders who made the U.S. Air Force a reality.

Air power played a crucial role in ending World War 2. See long-range bombers destroy Germany from above. Watch the Enola Gay drop the atomic bomb and watch the U.S. Air Force prepare for the Jet Age.

The Berlin Airlift and Korean Conflict spur the race for air superiority as the U.S. confronts the Soviet Union. Watch as American and Soviet scientists make enormous advances in missile technology, and international politics becomes a game of stalemate.

Humbled in Vietnam but victorious in the Persian Gulf, U.S. air power leads the world in developing aviation technology including Stealth. The Air Force prepares to soar into the 21st century thus achieving and maintaining air superiority for the future.