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Aerial reconnaissance

Here are entered works limited to the aerial examination of enemy territory to obtain military information concerning installations, movements, resources, strength, etc. Works on military aerial observation in general, including aerial reconnaissance and surveillance, monitoring of friendly ground forces, observation of friendly artillery fire, etc., are entered under Aerial observation (Military science).

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• Military reconnaissance

• Aerial reconnaissance -- Juvenile fiction
• Aerial reconnaissance -- United States
• Aerial reconnaissance, American
• Photographic reconnaissance systems
• Reconnaissance aircraft

• Reconnaissance, Aerial

• The Air Patrol: A Story of the North-West Frontier (London: H. Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by Herbert Strang, illust. by Cyrus Cuneo (Gutenberg text)

• A Need to Know: The Role of Air Force Reconnaissance in War Planning, 1945-1953 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2004), by John Thomas Farquhar (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Early Cold War Overflights, 1950-1956: Symposium Proceedings (2 volumes; Washington: Office of the Historian, Naval Reconaissance Office, 2003), ed. by R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early Cold War Overflights, 1950-1956: Symposium Proceedings (2 volumes; Washington: Office of the Historian, Naval Reconaissance Office, 2003), ed. by R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust)

• Uninhabited Air Vehicles: Enabling Science for Military Systems (2000), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974 (unclassified, censored version, 1998), by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach (PDF files at fdlp.gov)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Reconnaissance and Scouting: A Practical Course of Instruction, in Twenty Plain Lessons, for Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Men (London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1891), by Robert Baden-Powell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Information in War: Its Acquisition and Transmission (London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1895), by George Armand Furse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Service of Security and Information (11th edition; Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., c1903), by Arthur L. Wagner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Early Cold War Overflights, 1950-1956: Symposium Proceedings (2 volumes; Washington: Office of the Historian, Naval Reconaissance Office, 2003), ed. by R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Need to Know: The Role of Air Force Reconnaissance in War Planning, 1945-1953 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2004), by John Thomas Farquhar (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Aids to Scouting for N.-C.Os. and Men (revised and enlarged edition; Aldershot: Printed by Gale and Polden, 1915), by Robert Baden-Powell (PDF at scoutscan.com)
• Reconnaissance and Scouting: A Practical Course of Instruction, in Twenty Plain Lessons, for Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Men (London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1891), by Robert Baden-Powell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Scouting on Two Continents (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., c1926), by Frederick Russell Burnham, ed. by Mary Nixon Everett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Simon Kenton, or, The Scout's Revenge: An Historical Novel (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1852), by James Weir (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper (Gutenberg text)
• The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1851), by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• The Last Trail, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)

• Tom Willoughby's Scouts: A Story of the War in German East Africa (London et al.: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, c1919), by Herbert Strang, illust. by Walter Paget (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)