AFHF Book Club Podcast-TECHNOLOGICAL LEADERSHIP

DeWitt “Pete” Copp wrote a very good book over forty years ago. When I rst read it back then, I was struck by how interesting it was—it put a face on famous airmen I had read about, and in some cases had met in their old age. When reading it again recently and having studied airpower history for the past several decades, I was even more impressed by the power and authenticity of Copp’s in sights a...

Join our host, Pepe Soto, as he leads a discussion with, George Hayward, author of the Party Dolls: The True, Tragic Story of Two Americans’ Attempted Escape from a 1969 Hanoi POW Camp. In May 1969, at the peak of the Vietnam War, two American prisoners of war escaped from a brutal North Vietnamese prison camp. Their story is one of incredible bravery against the longest of odds—and also one of bi...

They had the most dangerous job n the Air Force. Now Bury Us Upside Down reveals the never-before-told story of the Vietnam War’s top-secret jet-fighter outfit–an all-volunteer unit composed of truly extraordinary men who flew missions from which heroes are made. In today’s wars, computers, targeting pods, lasers, and precision-guided bombs help FAC (forward air controller) pilots identify and des...

Twelve days that shook the world. The beginning of the end. In late 1972, the Vietnam peace talks were stalled, with the war at perhaps its most crucial point. The United States was searching for a way to strangle North Vietnam’s war-waging capabilities by shutting down its supply pipelines in order to force it back to the negotiating table. The solution: Linebacker II, a massive, intricately coor...

Tracing the use of air power in World War II and the Korean War, Mark Clodfelter explains how U. S. Air Force doctrine evolved through the American experience in these conventional wars only to be thwarted in the context of a limited guerrilla struggle in Vietnam. Although a faith in bombing's sheer destructive power led air commanders to believe that extensive air assaults could win the war a...

Join Moderator Pepe Soto, Robert Arnold (Gen Arnold's grandson), and Dik Daso (author of Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower) as they discuss the life and times of the man who established the technological traditions of today's USAF and USSF.

Famous for leading the Doolittle Raid, America’s first strike against Japan in World War II, Jimmy Doolittle led a remarkable life as an American pilot. This firsthand account by his granddaughter, Jonna Doolittle Hoppes, reveals an extraordinary individual: Joining Jonna and moderator, Pepe Soto, is her cousin, John Doolittle, III. An aviation pioneer who was the first to fly across the United St...