In its earliest days, the us. Air force was not a separate branch of the military. That wouldn't happen until after the second world war. A small group of airmen began to challenge the idea that airplanes were superfluous to winning a war. They gave themselves a motto, proficimus more irritanti, we make progress unhindered by custom. And they thought technological advances in aviation were about to revolutionize warfare forever.
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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