Overmatch: On Bullets, Bombers, and Taking the Right Path
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A warning against romanticism in military planning. In the early 1940s, the US Army Air Corps (USAAC) made a fateful decision that would cost the lives of tens of thousands of men over the next decade. Two years prior, the Army had just begun testing her newest bomber, the XB-17. This was not yet the slow, gun-festooned B-17 that would go down in legend as the chariot of the 8th Air Force in World War II. Rather,
Overmatch: On Bullets, Bombers, and Taking the Right Path
Overmatch: On Bullets, Bombers, and Taking…
Overmatch: On Bullets, Bombers, and Taking the Right Path
A warning against romanticism in military planning. In the early 1940s, the US Army Air Corps (USAAC) made a fateful decision that would cost the lives of tens of thousands of men over the next decade. Two years prior, the Army had just begun testing her newest bomber, the XB-17. This was not yet the slow, gun-festooned B-17 that would go down in legend as the chariot of the 8th Air Force in World War II. Rather,