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The Bomber Mafia
Malcolm Gladwell 2021
West Slope Library 940.5449 GLADWELL
- 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
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 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"
040 Carl Builder https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/2720/masks-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
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