Abstract
General Haywood Hansell has received praise for his contributions to planning the U.S. Army Air Forces’ (AAF’s) strategic bombardment campaigns during World War II. But he also has been panned for purportedly lacking important leadership traits while in command and being dogmatically committed to prewar doctrine he had helped shape. Yet when commanding in the Eighth Air Force, Hansell demonstrated ingenuity while carefully seeking to balance the doctrine he had helped devise in peacetime with the realities of wartime missions as he helped pioneer operations for a young AAF.
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Heather Venable, “Rescuing a General: General Haywood “Possum” Hansell and the Burden of Command,” The Journal of Military History 84, no. 2 (April 2020): 487–509.