Leon Wolff

Leon Wolff (September 2, 1914 – October 11, 1991)[1][2] was an American historian who wrote In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign.[4][5] He graduated from Northwestern University, then served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.In 1953, he and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he transplanted the business and cultivated his interests in golf and jazz.Wolff wrote four books over the next dozen years.Low-Level Mission (1957) described World War II's Operation Tidal Wave against the Ploești oil fields in Romania, by the US Army Air Forces.Wolff also wrote the Francis ParkmanPrize-winning-winning book Little Brown Brother (1961), originally subtitled How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century's Turn,[7] then wrote a final book, Lockout: The Story of the Homestead Strike of 1892 (1965), about the eponymous steel strike at Homestead, Pennsylvania.
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