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The Air Corps Tactical School, also known as ACTS and "the Tactical School", was a military professional development school for officers of the United States Army Air Service and United States Army Air Corps, the first such school in the world.
In the 1930s the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Alabama, was the birthplace and nurturing ground for American air doc-trine. The work undertaken at the school became manifest in the skies over Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific in the Second World War.
Learn how the Air Corps Tactical School, founded in 1920, taught air officers the strategy, tactics, and techniques of airpower and created the doctrine for the new service. Explore the challenges and conflicts faced by the school and its leaders, such as Maj. Thomas DeWitt Milling and the \"bomber mafia\".
The Air Corps Tactical School sought to help its students develop professionally as Army officers and airmen. Over the years, the emphasis in the school was placed increasingly on air power studies. The cornerstone to the air power curriculum was the Air Force course—it was the one course designed to promote air power, its theories and
- Eric S. Mathewson
- 2012
On 9 October 1942, the wartime equivalent of the Air Corps Tactical School, the AAF School of Applied Tactics (AAFSAT), was organized at Orlando Army Air Field, Orlando, Florida, under the Flying Training Centers.
10 de jul. de 2019 · His new book, Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II, fills in a crucial piece of the story of American airpower development—what was said at the Air Corps Tactical School (ACTS).
3 de nov. de 2020 · On Oct. 31, 2020, Air Command and Staff College military leaders, students and faculty celebrated Air Corps Tactical School’s centennial with cake and good cheers in remembering those who went before in carrying the torch of air power.
