“General…picture is taken” and “Where…stand”： St. Clair McKelway, “A Reporter with the B-29s: III—The Cigar, the Three Wings, and the Low-Level Attacks,” The New Yorker, June 23, 1945, 36.
Chapter One: “Mr. Norden was content to pass his time in the shop.”
“Mr. Norden…eighteen-hour day”： Albert L. Pardini, The Legendary Norden Bombsight （Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1999）， 51.
“read Dickens avidly…the simple life”： Stephen L. McFarland, America’s Pursuit of Precision Bombing, 1910–1945 （Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995）， 52.
“In the hands…a killer”： Robert Jackson, Britain’s Greatest Aircraft （Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword, 2007）， 2.
“One fellow…getting into”： Donald Wilson, interview by Hugh Ahmann for the United States Air Force Oral History Program, Carmel, CA, December 1975, Donald Wilson Papers, George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington, VA.
“Then out of nowhere…‘I had a dream’” and “I had a dream…sue for peace”： Donald Wilson, Wooing Peponi: My Odyssey Through Many Years （Monterey, CA: Angel Press, 1973）， 237.
“One of them…your Norden bombsight” and “Now look at…same direction”： Principles of Operation of the Norden Bombsight, US Army Air Forces training movie 23251, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&feature=share&v=143vi97a4tY.
“I solemnly swear…life itself”： Bombs Away, yearbook of the bombardier training school, class of 1944–46, Victorville Army Air Field, Victorville, CA, 16, available at http://www.militarymuseum.org/Victorville%20AAF%2044-6.pdf.
Chapter Two: “We make progress unhindered by custom.”
For information about the feminist movement in the 1970s, see Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States （New York: W. W. Norton, 2018）， 652.
“can of its own…the future” and “If success…other combat arms”： General John J. Pershing to General Charles T. Menoher, January 12, 1920, quoted in Report of the Director of Air Service to the Secretary of War （Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1920）， 11.
“We were highly…rest of the Navy” and “Nobody seemed…we were giving”： Harold George, interview for the United States Air Force Oral History Program, October 23, 1970, Clark Special Collections Branch, McDermott Library, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO.
“I feel quite certain…us to do it” and “Now, when we began…industrial area”： Donald Wilson, interview by Hugh Ahmann for the United States Air Force Oral History Program, December 1975, Donald Wilson Papers, George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington, VA.
“This is a quiet place…them up”： Carl H. Builder, The Masks of War: American Military Styles in Strategy and Analysis （Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989）， 34.
“I came home…tetrahedrons together” and “You get into technology…major problem”： Edited excerpt from longer interview conducted by Betty J. Blum in 1995 for the Chicago Architects Oral History Project, organized by the Department of Architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago. Oral history of Walter Netsch/interviewed by Betty J. Blum, compiled under the auspices of the Chicago Architects Oral History Project, the Ernest R. Graham Study Center for Architectural Drawings, Department of Architecture, the Art Institute of Chicago. Copyright 1997–2000, the Art Institute of Chicago; used with permission.
“We see then…outside power!”： Phil Haun, ed., Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II （Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2019）， Google Books.
Chapter Three: “He was lacking in the bond of human sympathy.”
Ira Eaker’s quotations in this chapter, unless otherwise indicated, are from interviews with Generals Ira Eaker, Curtis LeMay, James Hodges, James Doolittle, Barney Giles, and Edward Timberlake, recorded 1964, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Montgomery, AL, at http://airforcehistoryindex.org/data/001/019/301.xml.
“London raises…every morning”： Humphrey Jennings and Harry Watt, dirs., London Can Take It! （London: GPO Film Unit, Ministry of Information, 1940）， available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLgfSDtHFt8.
“We used to go…the glass at the same time”： Elsie Elizabeth Foreman oral history, December 1999, Imperial War Museums, London, available at https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80018439.