William M. Leary

William Matthew "Bill" Leary, Jr. (May 6, 1934 — February 24, 2006) was an American academic and aviation historian. For 32 years, Leary taught at the University of Georgia from which he retired as the E. Merton Coulter Professor of History in 2005.

On February 24, 2006, Leary died in Watkinsville, Georgia.

Selected works Leary, William M. We Shall Return! MacArthur's Commanders and the Defeat of Japan, 1942–1945. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. Leary, William M., and Leonard A. LeSchack. Project COLDFEET: Secret Mission to a Soviet Ice Station. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996. Leary, William M. Anything, Anywhere, Any Time: Combat Cargo in the Korean War. Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2000. Leary, William M. Perilous Missions: Civil Air Transport and the CIA Covert Operations in Asia. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.