Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General of the Army Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, 62, who retired in 1946, got a change in his five-star title to fit the air arm's independent status: General of the Air Force...
...thing is fairly certain. There is no defensive weapon in sight against rockets like the V-2 that strike down from above the atmosphere at perhaps 3,500 m.p.h. General McNarney admits that a missile fast enough and clever enough to intercept them is years away...
...fight with the Navy over the value of the long-range bomber if war should come, the Air Force holds that today's bomber has an advantage over the fighter aircraft. Last week the man who has charge of developing the Air Force's planes and weapons, General Joseph T. McNarney, Chief of the Air Materiel Command, backed his colleagues' views, but he added a note of caution. In the 1930s, he recalled in an interview, airmen had the same notion, but the supposedly invulnerable bombers got badly shot up by fighters early in World...
...contest between bomber and fighter is almost as old as air warfare, and the balance has never stayed in the same position for long. A good bomber may get superiority, but it has never held it; fighter designers, occasionally behind in development, have always caught up. General McNarney thinks that the great 6-36, the Air Force's heavy bomber, can now cope with fighters and can hold its advantage for a while. Though much slower (about 400 m.p.h. in emergencies) than fighters, the 6-36 flies at an altitude where jet engines lose much of their power. Further...
Still in the experimental stage are offensive guided missiles which may one day replace bombers. General McNarney says that the U.S. can now build a missile that can fly 5,000 miles and hit within 15 or 20 miles of a given target. "That's not close enough," he admits, "and it's too expensive." Another high authority believes that even this very moderate accuracy is "only a pipe dream...