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2. ” 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid. 5. Col Haywood S. Hansell III, interviewed by author, 16 February 1992. 6. Michael S. Sherry, The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987), 10. 7 . L e e K e n n e t t , A History of Strategic Bombing (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1982), 10–11. 8. Sherry, 4. 9. , 5 ; a n d K e n n e t t , 1 2 – 1 6 . 10. Sherry, 6; and Kennett, 17. 11. Carl von Clausewitz, On War, ed. Anatol Rapoport (New York: Penguin Books, 1982), 23, 101, 390.
K u t e r , H o y t S . V a n d e n b e r g , a n d R e g i n a l d V a n c e , H a n s e l l ’ s b r o t h e r - i n - l a w . F o r s o m e o f f i c e r s w h o a ttended ACTS, t h e y e a r o f d u t y a t t h e s c h o o l w a s a t i m e o f r e f l e c t i o n a n d r e s t . T h i s w a s n o t t h e c a s e f o r H a n s e l l b ecause the atmosphere at the school in 1934–35 was super charged with debate over the future of airpower in general a n d t h e A i r C o r p s i n p a r t i c u l a r .
As his biographer, Martha Byrd, explained, “Chennault chose his partners by the simple expedient of challenging any comer to stay on his wing t h r o u g h h a l f an h o u r o f h e a d - s p i n n i n g a e r o b a t i c s . ”3 3 H e s e l e c t e d t h e t h ree m e n h e c o n c l u d e d w e r e g o o d e n o u g h t o fly with him: Sgt William C. “Billy” McDonald , S g t J o h n H . “ L u k e ” W i l l i a m s o n , a n d L t H a y w o od “Possum” Hansell . ) 3 4 The team put in many hours of practice and put on per formances at Maxwell Field two or three times a week.