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 .xiii ... drawn to obsessives. I like them. ...
 .003 worlds largest airport 004 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Field_(Tinian) | Tinian North Field ]], 4 8500 foot runways 005 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXI_Bomber_Command | 21st Bomber Command ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-29_Superfortress | B29s ]]
 .008 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay | Curtis LeMay ]] replaces [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haywood_S._Hansell | Haywood Hansell ]]
 .013 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Norden | Carl Norden ]] Born Holland, Retired Switzerland
 .014 [[ http://webhome.auburn.edu/~mcfarsl/vitae.htm | Stephen L. McFarland ]] [[ https://www.amazon.com/History-Stephen-L-McFarland-Books/s?rh=n%3A9%2Cp_27%3AStephen+L.+McFarland | Books ]]
  . [[ https://www.amazon.com/dp/0764307231 | The Legendary Norden Bombsight ]] Albert L. Pardini 1999
 .016 Norden cranky perfectionist
 .019 Donald Wilson ''What if we just fought wars from the air?''
 .025 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norden_bombsight | bombsight ]] officially Mark XV, 55 lb analog computer on a gyroscope-stabilized platform
 .026 six month training [[ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqqqqZrD37h7AqIzxqm7TwVYI9hk7uztM | films ]]
 .033 Air Corps Tactical School Langley Virginia - stables, pilots expected to learn how to ride
 .034 "the Bomber Mafia" not complement, outcasts
 .037 tenets "The Bomber Will Always Get Through" "Attack by Daylight" "Accurate Bombsight" "30Kft, above AA"
 .039 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_R._Muller | Richard Muller ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_University_(United_States_Air_Force) | Air University ]]
 .040 [[ https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/builder_carl_h.html | Carl Builder ]] [[ https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/2720/masks-war | The Masks of War ]]
 .042 [[ https://www.usafa.edu/facilities/cadet-chapel/ | Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel ]] - plastic over leaky glass
 .046 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_flood_of_1936 | 1936 Pittsburgh Flood, ]] propeller spring factory flooded, no variable pitch propellers, aircraft industry halted
 .049 bomb weakest links, such as New York aqueduct and electric grid - 17 bombs would disable New York City
 .051 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_War_Plans_Division | Air War Plans Division ]] AWPD-1 document
 .054 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_C._Eaker | Ira Eaker ]] Precision daylight bombing vs British night civilian bombing
 .059 Eaker convinces Churchill to try daylight bombing
 .062 German bombing, British leadership expected panic, 43K killed, 1M buildings damaged or destroyed, population shrugged it off
 .064 Churchill advisor [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Lindemann,_1st_Viscount_Cherwell | Frederick Lindemann ]] believer in [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehousing | Dehousing ]], disbeliever in V-2
  . KL note Lindemann also eugenicist, hated working class, homosexuals, and blacks
  . KL would WW2 be over sooner without Lindemann misdirecting British war efforts?
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The Bomber Mafia

Malcolm Gladwell 2021

West Slope Library 940.5449 GLADWELL


Gladwell podcasts


  • xii Roberta Wohlstetter Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision 1962
    • PSU Basement D767.92.W6 (perhaps also ebook)
  • xiii ... drawn to obsessives. I like them. ...
  • 003 worlds largest airport 004 Tinian North Field, 4 8500 foot runways 005 21st Bomber Command B29s

  • 008 Curtis LeMay replaces Haywood Hansell

  • 013 Carl Norden Born Holland, Retired Switzerland

  • 014 Stephen L. McFarland Books

  • 016 Norden cranky perfectionist
  • 019 Donald Wilson What if we just fought wars from the air?

  • 025 bombsight officially Mark XV, 55 lb analog computer on a gyroscope-stabilized platform

  • 026 six month training films

  • 033 Air Corps Tactical School Langley Virginia - stables, pilots expected to learn how to ride
  • 034 "the Bomber Mafia" not complement, outcasts
  • 037 tenets "The Bomber Will Always Get Through" "Attack by Daylight" "Accurate Bombsight" "30Kft, above AA"
  • 039 Richard Muller Air University

  • 040 Carl Builder The Masks of War

  • 042 Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel - plastic over leaky glass

  • 046 1936 Pittsburgh Flood, propeller spring factory flooded, no variable pitch propellers, aircraft industry halted

  • 049 bomb weakest links, such as New York aqueduct and electric grid - 17 bombs would disable New York City
  • 051 Air War Plans Division AWPD-1 document

  • 054 Ira Eaker Precision daylight bombing vs British night civilian bombing

  • 059 Eaker convinces Churchill to try daylight bombing
  • 062 German bombing, British leadership expected panic, 43K killed, 1M buildings damaged or destroyed, population shrugged it off
  • 064 Churchill advisor Frederick Lindemann believer in Dehousing, disbeliever in V-2

    • KL note Lindemann also eugenicist, hated working class, homosexuals, and blacks
    • KL would WW2 be over sooner without Lindemann misdirecting British war efforts?
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