U.S. Air Force

<p><span class="deck"> An insider’s account of a startling— and still controversial—investigation of the Allied bombing of Germany</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> THE BIRTH OF THE RAND CORPORATION <span class="typestyle"> During World War II, America discovered that scientists were needed to win it—and to win any future war. That’s why RAND came into being, the first think tank and the model for all the rest.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> After two false starts, the B-17s got through. A pilot relives the 8th Air Force’s first successful daylight raid on the German capital</span> . </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A thousand miles behind enemy lines, Liberator bombers struck Hitler’s Rumanian oil refineries, then headed home flying so low that some came back with cornstalks in their bomb bays</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A former Department of Defense adviser—one of Robert S. McNamara’s Whiz Kids—explains why we tend to overestimate Russian strength, and why we underestimate what it will cost to defend ourselves.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">These World War II airmen had one of the most dangerous missions of all, piloting unarmed cargo planes over the Hump - the high and treacherous Himalayas.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">It is to the U.S. Air Force what Normandy is to the U.S. Army. The monuments are harder to find, but if you’re willing to leave the main roads, you will discover a countryside that resonates with one of the greatest military efforts in history.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">He spent his tour of duty bombing German cities and made it home only to discover he could never leave the war behind him. Then, a lifetime later, he found a way to make peace.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Growing up on a Cold War air base in the shadow of the big one</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How the U.S. Air Force came to drop an A-bomb on South Carolina</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Powered flight was born exactly one hundred years ago. It changed everything, of course, but most of all, it changed how this nation wages war.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How the U. S. military reinvented itself after the Vietnam disaster</span></p>

<p>After 65 years, the nation’s first female military pilots receive their due.</p>

<p>Col. Harry Stewart downed three advanced Nazi fighter planes in one day, then surprised the Air Force when he and his Tuskegee teammates won the first "top gun" competition. </p>