The Rise of American Air Power in WWII, w/ A.J. Baime

About this episode

Bestselling author A.J. Baime joins History Shorts for a full conversation about his upcoming book, Bird Men: The Rise of American Airpower and the Machine That Ended World War II. In the late 1930s, the U.S. Army Air Corps was still a relatively modest force. By 1945, America had built the B-29 Superfortress—the most advanced bomber of the war, a machine so costly and so essential that its development rivaled the Manhattan Project. In this interview, Baime traces that transformation through General Hap Arnold, the B-29 program, American industrial ingenuity, and the airpower that helped end World War II and reshape the United States as a superpower. SUPPORT THE SHOW: htt…