From: Steve Hix NVALID
Date: 2/14/2004 15:11 Pacific Standard Time

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"Mike Weeks" wrote in message ...
This may be of some interest. From the AP:

Why would you think that?

Never read any of Jablonski's aviation-related books?

It seems pretty clear that whoever wrote the obit hadn't.

The Sat. edition of the L.A. Times has a more detailed obit. At least here the
opening para mentions what's of most interest to the NG:

"Edward Jablonski, a noted biographer of George Gershwin, Irving Berlin and
other composers, who also was well known for his books on aviation and aerial
warfare, has died. He was 81."

Later there's this detail:

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But aviation, particularly aerial warfare, vied with music for Jablonski's
attention as a writer.

Among his more than two dozen books, 17 dealt with aviation, most notably
"Flying Fortress: The Illustrated Biographies of the B-17s and the Men Who Flew
Them" (1965), the four-volume "Airwar" (1971-72) and "Doolittle: A Biography,"
with Lowell Jackson Thomas (1976).

"My war books have dual messages: the heroism of the men who were involved in
them and the eventual nonconclusive results of war," Jablonski told an
interviewer in 1986. "Aviation makes possible the most deadly form of warfare
ever -- the perversion of one of man's greatest inventions."
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MW