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Title: completely misinterprets Michael Sherry's book
Review: Stephen Ambrose consistantly sites Michael Sherry's book to support his favorable impression of the Army Air Forces actions during the Second World War. While Ambrose praises the technoncratic approach of the airmen during World War II, Sherry harshly condemns this culture. According to Sherry this made the airmen unable to formulate alternatives to strategic bombing of cities instead they measured success in the amount of damage that the bombers caused regardless of the target's military value.Ambrose does not mention the bombing Dresden in his account. Nor does Ambrose write about the disasterous raids made by the Fifteenth and Eighth airforces in 1943 when hundreds of aircrew lost their lives for targets of dubious military value. Instead we get a myopic account of George McGovern's time in the Army Air Force.
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