Memoir, ca. 1980.

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Memoir, ca. 1980.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53111163

Contains a memoir discussing Gagon's work with aerial photointerpretation and target information agencies during the war. Describes his involvement in choosing targets to strategically bomb in Southeast Asia and Japan. Discusses his efforts to spearhead an effort to switch bombing priority from coke factories to aeronautics and engine factories. Includes an account of Gagon's travels to Japan following the war's end and his horror at viewing the total destruction, especially in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Also records his involvement with various intelligence agencies following the war's end, including the Central Intelligence Agency, Strategic Air Command, and the Defense Intelligence Agency, his commission as a Colonel in the Air Force, and his work in Soviet nuclear capability analysis. Provides an account of the Berlin airlift and an insight on the inner workings of the Truman Doctrine.

1 folder (21 p.)

Harold B. Lee Library

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