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...Allied planes rose to 8,000. The greatest U.S. air fleet ever launched on a single mission sent 1,000 heavy bombers and 1,200 fighters against three synthetic oil plants in the Leipzig area. This was air power in force to fit the fondest visions of Mitchell and Douhet-and more accurately employed than they had even dreamed in their...
Teaching Teacher. Japanese military aviation had been built on a dream. The Italian Giulio Douhet had dreamed of great fleets of heavy bombers roaring over the enemy and, presto, wiping him out. And so the Japanese built heavy bombers, fleets of them. But these fleets merely nibbled at the edges of Chinese vastnesses of terrain and courage...
Divorced. Major Alford J. Williams Jr., 44, Scripps-Howard columnist, Gulf Oil aviation manager, most vocal U. S. proponent of the Douhet theory of aerial Blitzkrieg; by Florence Hawes Williams, 38, after 15 years' marriage; in Reno...
Well the French knew that it is no part of German strategy or character to lose momentum. As the mass bombing of France began this week, it was recognized as execution of the Douhet theory's most frightful phase: to cripple an enemy's factories, transportation, communication, and to demoralize his rear-area population, before smashing his army at the front. That smash, when it came to France, was expected at five points along the Somme-Aisne line, and through the Swiss corner, and almost certainly in combination with harrying action by a new belligerent Italy (see below...
...battle was being fought last week. There was more to the battle than myriad engagements of fighting planes, more than methodical, day & night bombing of objectives behind the lines, more than the terrifying, endless strafing of ground troops. Last week's battle was the first big test of Douhet's famed theory that victory belongs to the side with the greatest air force...