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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"
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?
082 1943 Schweinfurt ball bearings
- 088 flashback 377 rounds to take down a bomber, hence fly straight in so bombardiers can aim
- 092 flashback 1937 Air corps test of bombing technique, lemay scores
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