Haywood Hansell and his fellow air war planners had warned General Arnold that America would not have the planes and personnel needed to begin sustained strategic bombing until late 1943. And Spaatz cautioned Gen. George Marshall, America’s chief war strategist, not to commit the force Eaker would be building in England before it was able to deliver decisive blows. But in early 1942, with Japan sweeping through Southeast Asia and the lightning-quick German army driving deeply into Russia and across North Africa toward the Suez Canal, it “looked,” Arnold wrote later, “as if the Allies were
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