The air offensive against Germany and Axis Europe is suffering from understatement. The objective is not merely to destroy cities, industries, human beings and the human spirit on a scale never before attempted by air action. The objective is to defeat Hitler with bombs, and to do it in 1943.
Two men in Britain share a conviction that it can be done and the responsibility for trying to do it. They are Air Marshal Chief Sir Arthur Travers Harris, chief of the R.A.F. Bomber Command, and Major General Ira Clarence Eaker, commander of...
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