air power

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• 11/20/2022
  

  James M. Scott's "Black Snow" Traces the Line from Tokyo to Hiroshima

  by James Thornton Harris

  "LeMay’s operation really served as an important trial balloon to see how the American public would respond to the mass killing of enemy civilians.... To the surprise of many in Washington, however, the American public voiced no real objection."

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• 5/30/2021
  

  Preserving the Stories of the Second World War

  by Colin Heaton

  Colin Heaton's latest book of oral history (with Anne-Marie Lewis) is based on oral histories he conducted with five significant Allied Airmen from World War II. Here, he discusses his work collecting veterans' stories from all sides of the airborne war and why those stories matter. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/25/2021
  

  Malcolm Gladwell on the Hard Decisions of War

  by Thomas E. Ricks

  Malcolm Gladwell's new study of the US Air Force unexpectedly rehabilitates the image of General Curtis LeMay. 

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• The Ever-Destructive Dreams of Air Power Enthusiasts

  by William J. Astore

  RAF bombers over Hamburg in 1943.Originally posted on TomDispatch.com