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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: Why It Failed

The following article on the Bay of Pigs Invasion is an excerpt from Warren Kozak's Curtis LeMay: Strategist and Tactician. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In March, just two months into the Kennedy administration, Air Force Chief Curtis LeMay was called into a meeting at the Pentagon with…

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Vietnam War Aircraft: Evolution in Flight

The following article on Vietnam War aircraft is an excerpt from Warren Kozak's Curtis LeMay: Strategist and Tactician. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. At the start of 1962, the U.S. had 16,000 military advisors training the South Vietnamese army in its fight against the Viet Cong and the…

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The Berlin Airlift: A Historic Air Operation

The following article on the Berlin Airlift is an excerpt from Warren Kozak's Curtis LeMay: Strategist and Tactician. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In the immediate years after World War Two, when Germany was still little more than a rubble heap, U.S. Air Force General Curtis LeMay arrived in…

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The Strategic Air Command (SAC): A History

The following article on the Strategic Air Command is an excerpt from Warren Kozak's Curtis LeMay: Strategist and Tactician. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In 1948, U.S. Air Force General Curtis LeMay was summoned back from Germany, where he was in charge of the Berlin Airlift, which provided criticial…

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George Wallace 1968 Presidential Campaign

The following article on the George Wallace 1968 presidential campaign is an excerpt from Warren Kozak's Curtis LeMay: Strategist and Tactician. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. George Corley Wallace, Jr. was born in Clio, Alabama in 1919. His family was at the bottom of the state’s social ladder.…

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The B-52 Bomber: The Air Force’s Workhorse

The following article on the B-52 bomber is an excerpt from Warren Kozak's Curtis LeMay: Strategist and Tactician. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Many of the modern weapons systems built after World War II were built with the hope that they would never be used. From 1941 to 1945,…

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The B-17 Flying Fortress: The Dependable Bomber

The following article on the B-17 Flying Fortress is an excerpt from Warren Kozak's Curtis LeMay: Strategist and Tactician. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In 1934, the Air Corps visionaries, led by Billy Mitchell disciples Hap Arnold and Tooey Spaatz under the command of Major Generals Frank Andrews…

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The Firebombing of Tokyo: Death From Above

The following article on the firebombing of Tokyo is an excerpt from Warren Kozak's Curtis LeMay: Strategist and Tactician. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. With the drawing up of firebombing of Tokyo campaign in early 1945, the United States Army Air Force was faced with a strategic and ethical…

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The Bombing of Tokyo—The Wrath of the B-29s

The following article on the Bombing of Tokyo is an excerpt from Warren Kozak's Curtis LeMay: Strategist and Tactician. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Survivors described the Bombing of Tokyo as a moonscape of twisted reddish-black iron, roasted sheet metal and rubble scattered across sixteen square miles…

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Result of the Cuban Missile Crisis

The following article on the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis is an excerpt from Warren Kozak's Curtis LeMay: Strategist and Tactician. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In the summer of 1962, negotiations on a treaty to ban above ground nuclear testing dominated the political world. The…

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