Wilbur H. Morrison
Autor von Point of No Return: The Story of the Twentieth Air Force
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Wilbur H. Morrison was a radio announcer and news commentator before joining the Army Air Corps and becoming a B-29 bombardier-navigator during WWII. Morrison flew five hundred combat missions during the war, receiving twenty-one awards and decorations and rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. mehr anzeigen In 1954, he went to work for Douglas Aircraft Company where he became manager of public relations and an internationally recognized authority on aviation weniger anzeigen
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Morrison is a staunch defender of the "Strategic Bombing won WW2" school of thought. Despite that bias, he does quite a good job of analyzing an reporting on the development and implementation of strategic bombing as it evolved in WW2, Virtually all coherence of any strategy was confounded by the cult like stubbornness of "Bomber Harris" , Hap Arnold's overt campaigning for a separate air force and the political and usually untimely interjections of Churchill in support of reviving the British Empire. Eisenhower's paranoia re: the need for air support kept the strategic side of the air war in abeyance to redundantly duplicate his already overpowering tactical air capability driving the decision making process to the point of frequent paralysis.… (mehr)