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...which deep religious feeling and incredible brutality could exist side by side. In her novel (a Book-of-the-Month Club selection), Author Oldenbourg has woven a huge and intricate tapestry of a medieval society so successfully that most people will be happy to look at it - and even hap pier never to have been part...
Four-Star Flyer. Benjamin Wiley Chidlaw, 54, a sturdy six-footer, is accustomed to terse orders and tough assignments. Once, during World War II, the late General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold asked him: "What do you know about designing and building a jet airplane?" He replied, "Nothing much-does anyone?" "Well, Ben," said General Arnold, "you'd better find out. I've decided to put you in charge of the job." Chidlaw pioneered in developing America's first jet (the P-59, with a Bell air frame and General Electric engine). He was given a year...
...Vandenberg way did not include the public martyrdom of a Billy Mitchell or the free-swinging tactics of a "Hap" Arnold. Van ducked involvement in side issues and took long detours around personal feuds. During the "revolt of the admirals" in 1949, with its raucous attack on the 6-36, during the MacArthur hearings of 1951, when the atmosphere was alive with bitterness and emotion, and again last year when the Air Force budget was cut by $5 billion, West Pointer Vandenberg refused to be goaded into name-calling or personal acrimony. Quietly, doggedly, and with great clarity, he plugged...
Four-star General Twining presides over the Year i of the new jet Air Force. The illustrious air generals who went before him were the revolutionaries. From Billy Mitchell through "Hap" Arnold and "Tooey'1 Spaatz, the revolutionaries 1) fought the Army for recognition for air power's place in modern warfare, and 2) fought everybody for an independent U.S. Air Force which could make the most of its new capabilities. They got formal independence from Congress and President Truman in 1947. But the declaration of independence did not end the revolution. Tooey Spaatz, as the first Chief...
...were B-17s and P-40s neatly parked on Clark Field for Japanese bombers to pick off hours after Air Chief "Hap" Arnold had alerted responsible officers to the news of Pearl Harbor, and 45 minutes after air spotters had radioed reports of approaching Japanese planes? Historian Morton's best guess: fouled-up communications, command indecision. The cost: 99 planes destroyed out of a total of 277, and the offensive power of the Air Force in the Philippines crippled. Some matters Historian Morton resolves plainly and bluntly. The Philippine army, constituting more than half of MacArthur...