Robert F. Dorr was an air force veteran and a retired senior Foreign Service officer who published 70 books and thousands of magazine articles about the air force, aviation, and military affairs. He wrote a weekly opinion column for Air Force Times, monthly columns for Combat Aircraft, Air International, and Aerospace America magazines, and a quarterly column for Air Power History, which he helped create. He was the author of Mission to Berlin, Mission to Tokyo, Hell Hawks!, Fighting Hitler’s Jets, and Air Force One.