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Reading progress update: I've read 130 out of 920 pages.

The Army Air Forces in World War II Volume Five The Pacific: Matterhorn to Nagasaki June 1944 to August 1945 - Wesley Frank Craven, James Lea Cate

Who would have thought that a chapter on MATTERHORN logistics would be so fascinating? This is why I like reading official histories, as they cover all sorts of matters that publishers of more commercially-oriented works would have edited out.

 

And reading it just left me amazed that anyone ever thought that an operation that required flying fuel over the world's highest mountain chain was ever a good idea. It may very well have been the most American thing the United States did in that war.