Curator of Modern Military Aircraft, Division of Aeronautics
National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
NASM MRC 312
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Email: dasod at si.edu
Research Interests
World War II Airpower-related biography.
Current Research Projects
General George Marshall and General Henry H. Arnold and the creation of American Airpower
Current or Projected Exhibits
Modern Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (NASM Downtown)
The Price of Freedom: Americans at War (NMAH)
Recent Publications
The Air Force (Chapter II); West Point: Two Centuries and Beyond (Chapter III); Architects of American Air Supremacy: Gen. Hap Arnold and Dr. Theodore von Kármán (Maxwell AFB, Ala.: Air University Press, 1997)
Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000), winner of the 2001 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) History Manuscript Award
Doolittle: Aerospace Visionary (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2003)
U.S. Air Force: A Complete History (New York: Hugh Lauter Levin, 2006).
America's Hangar, 3rd Edition: The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
Updated -11/09/07
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