Bomber Mafia
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The Bomber Mafia were a close-knit group of American military men who believed that long-range heavy bomber aircraft in large numbers were able to win a war. The derogatory term "Bomber Mafia" was use
Daylight precision-bombing advocates Carl A. Spaatz, Muir S. Fairchild and Donald M. Wilson at Maxwell Air Force Base in 1946
Lieutenant General Harold L. George, USAF
"The bomber will always get through" was a phrase used by Stanley Baldwin in a 1932 speech "A Fear for the Future" given to the British Parliament. His speech stated that contemporary bomber aircraft
Bomber Mafia
…that grinding, static trench warfare as seen in World War I could be avoided. In November 1932, the British statesman Stanley Baldwin proclaimed that "the bomber will always get through", referring to the strategic bombing of cities. The Bomber Mafia agreed with Baldwin only in that the bomber would prevail in its mission, intending…
Stanley Baldwin in the late 1920s