02: Dr Mel Deaile - Strategic Air Command and Gen LeMay: Culture and Legacy

From Balloons to Drones
30/09/2019 34 min
02: Dr Mel Deaile - Strategic Air Command and Gen LeMay: Culture and Legacy

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In this episode, we sit down with Dr Mel Deaile, former B-52 and B-2 pilot and Associate Professor at USAF Air University for a talk about his book: 'Always at War: Organizational Culture in Strategic Air Command, 1946-62.' We discuss the early days of SAC and it's culture, as well as the controversies surrounding General Curtis LeMay.

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