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...Arnold dropped in on Guam to hunt up parking space for some of his 12,000 European combat airplanes, and prepared to realign air force commands for the big Pacific push. While 520 of his Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortresses bombed shuddering Osaka for the fifth time, proud Hap Arnold outlined to correspondents the kind of punishment U.S. airmen planned for Japan...
Nice is strictly for G.I.s. Visiting brass hats were warned they might get informal treatment. General "Hap" Arnold, boss of the Air Forces, got it. Inspecting the town after recuperating from an attack of pneumonia, he walked past a happy G.I. Said the soldier, sticking out a friendly hand: "Name's Brown." Said the General, extending his own: "Mine's Arnold...
Bill Darby, assigned to a War Department desk job in Washington, itched to go back to combat. When General "Hap" Arnold took an inspection party to Europe last month, he went along. In Italy he headed for the headquarters of the 10th Mountain Division-its assistant commander had just been wounded. He got the job, went happily back into action at the head of a combat team. But his fabulous luck had only eight days to run. Last week, shortly before German resistance crumpled, Bill Darby was killed by a German 88-mm. shell...
Rich with good, battle-tested officers, Hap Arnold had no trouble finding a successor for Ira Eaker as head of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force. His choice: husky, bald-headed Lieut. General John K. (Uncle Joe) Cannon, whose Twelfth Air Force in Italy had blasted the way for Allied forces from Salerno to Milan...
...Stearns was one of a group of men General "Hap" Arnold had rounded up after Pearl Harbor to bring a keen civilian eye to the multifarious problems of the Air Forces. Hap Arnold laid out their duties, sent them out to rout the bugs from combat planes and men. Soon every U.S. war theater had seen eager little bands of middle-aged thinkers in uniform, tinkering, questioning, hot-seating around through enemy flak and fighters...