Irving Brinton Holley
Irving Brinton Holley Jr. (born February 8, 1919 in Torrington , Connecticut , † August 12, 2013 in Durham , North Carolina ) was an American military and technical historian.
Life
Holley graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor's degree cum laude in 1940. Further studies at Yale were interrupted by World War II, in which he was a gunner in the United States Army Air Forces , served as an instructor and from 1944 as an analyst at the main center of the Air Forces for Resupply at Wright Field in Dayton studied the development of military aircraft in the United States and their production in the interwar years. In 1946 he was discharged from the military and taught at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and after receiving his doctorate from Yale in 1947 at Duke University . In 1989 he retired from Duke University. He was also a reservist in the Air Force until 1981 and made it to major general.
In addition to issues relating to the military industry, he also examined the history of highway construction in the United States. In 1991 he received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize . He received high civil awards from the US Air Force and the Legion of Merit .
Fonts
- Ideas and Weapons, Yale University Press, 1983
- The transfer of ideas. Historical essays, 1968
- General John M. Palmer , Citizen Soldiers, and the Army of a Democracy, Praeger 1982
- Buying Aircraft: Material Procurement for the Army Air Forces, Washington, DC: Army Center for Military History, 1964, 1989
- The Highway Revolution, 1895-1925: How the United States Got Out of the Mud, Carolina Academic Press, 2008
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holley, Irving Brinton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American military and technical historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Torrington , Connecticut |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 2013 |
| Place of death | Durham , North Carolina |