Tarmacs and Trenches

<p>Millard Harmon is the most important airman people don't know. A flyer through and through it fell to him alone among senior pilots in World War II to command a large Army organization on the fighting front. He remains the shining light for air forces and airmen searching for a command perch of combined and joint operations if only they'd look to Robert Novotny's fast-paced insightful ground-breaking book.</p><p>Dr. Thomas A. Hughes Professor of Military History USAF School of Advanced Air & Space Studies</p><p>Author of Overlord: General Pete Quesada and the Triumph of Tactical Air Power in World War II & Admiral Bill Halsey: A Naval Life</p><p>Millard Harmon should stand with Billy Mitchell and Hap Arnold as a founding father of the USAF. On the cusp of victory in World War II Harmon's plane disappeared over the Pacific and history largely forgot him. Novotny's first-rate biography rights this wrong.</p><p>Dr. Richard R. Muller Professor of Military History USAF School of Advanced Air & Space Studies</p><p>Author of The German Air War in Russia & The Luftwaffe Over Germany: Defense of the Reich</p>