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When war put Rose into uniform in the Signal Corps, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold soon swiped him to direct the music for Moss Hart's service hit, Winged Victory. His new show is his first radio project since leaving the Air Forces last summer...
...General grinned, rinsed his leathery face, got dressed and marched off to his first meeting as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Able, ailing 59-year-old "Hap" Arnold had been retired after 42 years of soldiering, 34 years of it in the air, seven years of it as boss of the air forces. The Army's birdmen had flown a long way from the Army's nest in that time, would soon fly away, never to return. Tooey Spaatz, sure by all signs to boss the U.S.'s first separate Air Force...
Cried General of the Army "Hap" Arnold: "This proposed amendment will, in my considered opinion, have the effect of destroying the Army Air Forces in the most critical period of its history." The Navy was equally concerned that morale in the fleet air arm would be shattered. Top-brass airmen frankly regarded flight pay as "one of the best pieces of bait we have on the hook for young flyers...
...young flyers that Congress was exercised about.. The legislators noted that parachute pay and glider pay were kept under a $1,200-a-year ceiling, and wanted flight pay similarly regulated. Under the present system there were incongruities, e.g.: "Hap" Arnold drew $4,000 a year more salary (by flight pay) than his boss, Chief of Staff Marshall. Three flying generals, with four stars, drew as much as or more than Five-Star Marshall, whose only bonus was an occasional morsel of overseas pay (at 10%). Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, rated a naval aviator, until...
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