Dr. Chris Rein is the senior historian at Headquarters, U.S. Air Forces Europe/Air Forces Africa at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. He earned his MA in history from LSU in 2001 and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Kansas in 2011. He is the author or editor of seven books, including The North African Air Campaign: The U.S. Army Air Forces from El Alamein to Salerno (University Press of Kansas, 2012) and Mobilizing the South: The Thirty-First Infantry Division, Race, and World War II  (Alabama, 2022). A retired USAF lieutenant colonel, he has previously served as an associate professor of history at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, an associate professor at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, a research historian for the U.S. Army at the Combat Studies Institute, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and as the managing editor of Air University Press at Maxwell.