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The Pointblank Directive
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List of Images /Foreword by Stephen Frater /Introduction /Preface: 1943 /Chapter 1: Airmen /Chapter 2: Autumn 1943 /Chapter 3: Pointblank /Chapter 4: Life on Base /Chapter 5: Spaatz /Chapter 6: Anywhere /Chapter 7: The Clock Ticks /Chapter 8: Formation /Chapter 9: Exhaustion /Chapter 10: Locusts /Chapter 11: Flak Boys /Chapter 12: Berlin /Chapter 13: April /Chapter 14: Invasion /Chapter 15: Secret Weapons /Chapter 16: War Plan /Chapter 17: Combat /Chapter 18: Dicing with the Devil /Chapter 19: May 1944 /Chapter 20: Deception /Chapter 21: June 1944 /Chapter 22: D-Day /Chapter 23: D+1 /Notes Select Bibliography /Index

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Author L. Douglas Keeney, a well-respected researcher and historian, analyzes recently declassified WWII files to describe the events of “Pointblank”—the plan devised by General Henry H. “Hap” Arnold, General Carl A. “Tooey” Spaatz, and General James “Jimmy” Doolittle to clear the skies over the D-Day beaches.

About the Author

L. Douglas Keeney has been writing military non-fiction for 16 years and his work has been reviewed by Newsweek, salon.com, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Keeney has appeared on The Discovery Channel, CBS, The Learning Channel and The Military Channel (which he cofounded), and he has been interviewed by scores of radio stations and syndicates. He is presently the on-air host for On Target. Previously, Keeney worked for 15 years in marketing and advertising in Los Angeles and New York and was nominated to the Institute for Advanced Advertising Studies (NYC) and was nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year by both the Graduate School of Business at the University of Southern California. Keeney has a BA in Economics from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.

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"A thoroughly satisfying read: informative and entertaining. What is always mind-boggling is the sacrifice made in any war. Pointblank Directive shows quite clearly what the airwar leading up to D-Day cost both sides of the conflict. More importantly, it fills a needed gap in knowledge of exactly how critical the proper air campaign can be in determining the ground conflict. Historians and students of World War II history alike will be well-served reading this book." --Bernie Chowdhury, author of The Last Dive: A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths (Harper) "The Pointblank Directive is a richly textured portrait of air power and leadership, possibly the last untold story of D-Day. Using extensive new research, Keeney carefully reconstructs the events that led up to the success of that battle." --Savannah Jones, www.sirreadalot.org "...comes from a historian who considers the politics and personalities of The Pointblank Directive and how it become one of the most amazing military come-backs in history. By raid's end some forty percent of the Allied planes had been shot down. The story of how forces recovered from these heavy losses and flew to victory against impossible odds makes this a powerful account of strategic air command decision-making processes, battles, and close encounters, offering a fresh analysis of how The Pointblank Directive changed the world." --The Midwest Book Review (March 2013) "I enjoyed this book immensely. It was fast-paced, exciting, filled with the untold yet in no way unglamorous adventures and perilous day-to-day existence of the United States Air Force ... This is one of the best historical books I have read." - The San Francisco Book Review (April 16, 2013) "Keeney, a veteran author on WWII, relates the story of the successful air offensive that broke the back of the German air force in the spring of 1944 and paved the way for Allied victory in WWII. Keeney's history of Operation Pointblank differs from others in his emphasis on the operation's connection to the overall campaign against Germany in Western Europe. He demonstrates how the air victory enabled the successful landings on D-Day and further allowed the Allied armies to prosecute their land campaign with the comfortable knowledge that there was no threat to them from the air. Keeney explores how an Allied air campaign that was failing badly in November 1943 achieved total victory a mere five months later through new leadership, new technology, and most important, by jettisoning old tactics in favor of aggressive fighter sweeps that took the battle to the Luftwaffe everywhere. Among many personal stories of aerial combat, he makes the important point that victory in the air cannot be fully appreciated without understanding how critical it was to winning the decisive battle on the ground: D-Day. Keeney's well-written history is aimed at a general audience, but experts will find it an enjoyable read." Publishers Weekly

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