Pilots had to stop taking evasive action in order to hit the target. Lamay was an empiricist and calculated how many rounds it would take to bring down a b 17 bomber. His group put twice as many bombs on the target as any group had before, without losing a single bomber.
On the eve of the Second World War, a band of visionaries at Maxwell Air Force Base tried to reimagine modern warfare. They failed. Part one on the extraordinary life of the Air Force General Curtis LeMay.
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