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General "Hap" Arnold picked George Kenney from behind a desk and sent him to Australia. "Sir, I am your airman here," said brisk, bantam-sized Kenney when he reported for duty...
MacArthur liked Kenney's drive and cocksureness, was soon calling him "George." Kenney, an airman's airman who was getting his first chance to prove it, liked MacArthur, especially when the General turned him loose to run his own air show without interference from groundlings. Like most ground generals of his day, Douglas MacArthur was not notably appreciative of the potentialities of air power. But he had flexibility of mind, and he learned...
With only the top of his periscope above water, the skipper eased his craft close to the airman. Twice Brandt paddled away, thinking it was a Jap sub. Said the Skipper: "The Jap shelling finally got so bad he was willing to catch anything that came...
When finally Brandt got hold, the sub slowly moved out of range. It took an hour to do it without drowning the tow: as it was, Brandt's head was under water a good half of the time. Then the submarine surfaced at last and took him aboard. Airman Brandt was grateful but "a little beat...
Curtis LeMay had seen plenty of combat over Germany, but it was not entirely for bravery that he was picked for the new job. Almost from the day he entered the Air Corps as a flying cadet in 1928, Airman LeMay had been a bug on precise maintenance of military aircraft, had been equally pernickety about how they were flown...