From the Stacks is kicking off the new year with a look back at the voices that shaped the Department of the Air Force. ✈️📚

AFHRA’s latest blog post dives into one of its most powerful resources: oral history interviews. These firsthand accounts illuminate the decisions, challenges, and innovations that defined generations of Airmen and Guardians.

Major General Laurence S. Kuter’s interviews, from World War II through the 1970s, show how firsthand accounts reveal one Airmen's perspective behind the DAF missions, decisions, and leaders.

Together with operational documents, these interviews offer one of the clearest pictures of air and space operations—centered on the warfighter’s decisions and dilemmas.

🌎 Our regional partners make all the difference!

 ✈️In the final part of the Panama series in From the Stacks, we explore the post-World War II training environment and integration with USAF partners through the 1970s. Taking a look how the USAF tested its bombing and air-to-air tactics, this post demonstrates how critical the USAF partnership with Panama is to pathfinding defensive and offensive capabilities as well as deterring threats to the homeland.

✈️As today's V-E celebration and remembrances continues, we also reflect on the remarkable humanitarian mission that concluded 80 years ago. Known as Operation CHOWHOUND, B-17 bombers soared through the skies not for combat but for the delivery of life-saving food to the starving Dutch population in a defining moment of compassion. 🤝