Haywood S. Hansell

Haywood Shepherd Hansell Jr., was a general officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, and later the United States Air Force. He became an advocate of the doctrine of strategic bombardment, and was one of the chief architects of the concept of daylight precision bombing that governed the use of airpower by the USAAF in the war.

Hansell was born in Fort Monroe, Virginia, on September 28, 1903, the son of First Lieutenant Haywood S. Hansell, an Army surgeon, and Susan Watts Hansell, both considered members of the southern aristocracy from Georgia. His greatgreatgreatgrandfather John W. Hansell served in the American Revolution, his greatgreatgrandfather William Young Hansell was an officer in the War of 1812, and his greatgrandfather Andrew Jackson Hansell was a general in the Confederate States Army and Georgias adjutant general. His grandfather, William Andrew Hansell, graduated from Georgia Military Institute and also served as an officer in the Confederate Army, first in the 35th Alabama, then as a topographical engineer.

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