Doug Dildy est diplômé de l’USAF Academy, de l’US Armed Forces Staff College and USAF Air War College. Il detient également un master en sciences politiques.
Il a écrit de nombreux ouvrages sur l’histoire de la guerre aérienne, par exemple des études de la Bataille d’Angleterre parues dans les revues RAF Salute et Air Power History ou plusieurs articles sur les forces aériennes néerlandaises, danoises et norvégiennes pendant la campagne de 1940. Il est également un contributeur régulier du magazine Small Air Forces Observer.
If British bombers could not deliver even 10% of their ordnance within five miles (8km) of target, how could they expect to hit a precise point in the centre of a dam 2,133ft (650m) wide with a single bomb heavy enough to blow a hole in masonry 40ft (12.2m) thick? Not surprisingly, when a proposal to attempt to do so was put before ‘Bomber’ Harris, he responded with a strongly worded negative reaction.
Fully aware of his high intelligence, and not blessed with the kind of personality that would keep it in perspective, Wallis regarded his intellectual inferiors with disdain. He believed that ‘it is the engineers of this country who are going to win this war’, while senior Air Staff officers were ‘no doubt…singularly stupid’.