The bomramafia believed that bombs carried by airplanes were about to make the armies of men obsolete. The aircorps tactical school was never very large, but it was enormously influential. Of the 320 air force generals on duty at the end of war, 261 came out of the tactical school. One of those graduates was curtis emerson lemay.
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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