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...General of the Air Force "Hap" Arnold, grounded at Sonoma, Calif, since his retirement in 1946, made one more break with his past. To the local city fathers he presented his collection of model airplanes (more than 65 exact scale models, covering every phase of aviation history, with wingspreads ranging up to 4 ft ). For one thing, they were cluttering up the house, he explained...
...June 1912, at a little airbase near Washington, D.C., 2nd Lieut. Henry Harley ("Hap") Arnold had a conversation that five-star General Arnold still likes to remember. Infantry Captain Billy Mitchell, 32, had just come back from Japan where he had had a look at the Japanese army. Did Lieut. Arnold know that the Japs had a bigger air force than the U.S.-ten planes to the U.S.'s total of four? Captain Mitchell was writing a paper for the War College on the future of military aviation, but since he had not yet learned to fly he needed...
...West Point, Cadet David Lee Arnold, 22, graduated 450th in his class from the Military Academy and married Jean Simmons, 20, of Mountain Lakes, N.J., all with the beaming approval of his General of the Air Force father, Old Grad (1907) Henry. H. ("Hap") Arnold...
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...
...Quantico Marines, Georgetown, and Navy are expected to provide the toughest games of a tough week. The Leathernecks are coached by Captain Raymond "Hap" Spuhler, who learned his baseball at Duke from Jack Coombs, the former great Philadelphia Athletics' pitcher. Coombs and McInnis played together with...