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Thomas Wildenberg is an independent historian/scholar whose special interests in aviators, naval aviation, and technological innovation in the military. He has written extensively about the U.S. Navy during the interwar period. His writings have appeared in a variety of scholarly journals including the Naval War College Review, American Neptune, United States Naval Institute Proceedings, Air Power History, and the Journal of Military History. His books on naval history include, Grey Steel and Black Oil, Destined for Glory, All the Factors of Victory, Mitchell’s War With the Navy, and Ship Killer (with Norman Mr. Wildenberg is a former Smithsonian Fellow, having served successive terms as a Ramsey Fellow at the National Air and Space Museum in 1998 and 1999. He is the recipient the 2005 Literary Award from the Surface Warfare Association (2005), the Edward S. Miller Award for the best history article published in the Naval War College Review (2005), the John Laymen Award for best biography from the North American Society for Oceanic History (2003). He was awarded the Edward S. Miller Naval War College Research Fellowship in 1998 and received an honorable mention in the Ernest J. Eller Prize in Naval History in 1994.