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Jerry Marrion had an important piece of history boxed up for more than 35 years. It wasn’t until he and his wife, Norma, were preparing to move back to South
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In his new book, “The Bomber Mafia,” Malcolm Gladwell goes into great detail about World War II’s Norden bombsight. As an amateur historian, I’ve been the incidental beneficiary of lived experience in place of Gladwell’s admission of research-lite. The Internet has empowered people with a cell phone or computer to be factually in league with generations of scholars.
One reviewer of Malcolm’s book concluded that its hero is Curtis LeMay, general of the U.S. Army Air Force. LeMay is described by his admirers as a ‘doer’ when compared with his peers, those inclined to think long and hard before acting: Ex. Precision bombing vs. Napalming up a civilian firestorm.