Faceless Bureaucrat

Blogging on bureaucracy, organizations, USDA, agriculture programs, American history, the food movement, and other interests. Often contrarian, usually optimistic, sometimes didactic, occasionally funny, rarely wrong, always a nitpicker.

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Saturday, June 03, 2023

The Pilot Makes the Machine?

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I found this piece on an obscure and unsuccessful (for US)WWII fighter plane to be very interesting. It seems that while it was a failure ...

Saturday, March 05, 2022

Willie and Joe--Showing My Age

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I was born before Pearl Harbor. After the war was over I got a compilation of Bill Mauldin's Willie and Joe cartoons, depicting GI'...

Friday, March 04, 2022

The Army's War in the Pacific

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Been reading the John McManus books on the Army's role in the Pacific (so far two volumes,carrying the story through the end of 1944...

Thursday, August 12, 2021

Equality and Inequity in WWII--the Bomber War

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Interesting--in WWII the RAF bomber crews were self-selected with no divisions of rank or class--they stuck the men who had finished traini...

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