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(Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

U.S. Marines watch as Marine Corps F4U Corsairs provide effective close air support 6 December 1950 in the vicinity of the Chosin
Reservoir, Korea. One aircraft can be seen flying through the smoke billowing from a successful napalm bomb strike on a communist
Chinese position.

Precedent and Rationale
for an Army Fixed-Wing
Ground Attack Aircraft
Maj. John Q. Bolton, U.S. Army
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