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June 27, 1923, The First Successful Aerial Refueling
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Stars and Stripes - A racially motivated clash in England during WWII forced the US military to grapple with inequality
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Book World: Wrestling with the strategy - and morality - of the firebombing of Japan
Diana Preston, The Washington Post
April 23, 2021
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On the night of March 9, 1945, more than 300 U.S. Army Air ForcesB-29 Superfortress bombers took off from rudimentary airfields in the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific, retaken from the Japanese the previous summer. Their mission was to attack a 12-square-mile sector of central Tokyo containing the highly flammable, densely packed wooden dwellings of thousands of working-class families as well as industrial and commercial buildings. During the three-hour raid their bombs ignited a firestorm that was so intense it killed 100,000 people and sent up a glow that was visible 150 miles away. When the returning B-29s touched down, teams fumigated them to dissipate the smell of burning flesh. In The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, Malcolm Gladwell takes readers on the
World War II Drama Why America Was So Bad at Air Warfare In 1941
From mid-1944, thanks to the introduction of better fighters and the use of aggressive, realistic offensive fighter doctrines, American airmen attained not the air superiority they sought, but total air supremacy over the whole of western Europe.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Because of U.S. budgetary concerns and belief in isolationism, the United States began the Second World War lightyears behind in fighter tactics. It took them two long years to finally begin defeating the Nazis over Europe.
The popular conception of the struggle in the air over northern Europe during World War II is of squadrons of sleek fighters racing over the German heartland to protect contrailed streams of lumbering bombers stretching beyond sight. This is as it was during the second half of America’s air war against Germany, but it was as far from the truth as it is possible to get at the start of that great aerial crusade. It took