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Last week the Air Forces put a star on Elliott Roosevelt's career. General "Hap" Arnold included his name in a list of 78 colonels up for promotion to brigadier general. If the promotion was approved by the Senate, Colonel Roosevelt would become one of the few Air Forces combat generals, possibly the only one, who made the grade without the magic of a pilot's wings...
...Forcemen agree that the only reason there are not more airmen on the Army general staff today is that General "Hap" Arnold has not been able to release enough starred officers from his busy air forces. Marshall's fixed policy is to make the ratio of top air general officers and ground officers equal...
...either, the omission was only temporary. Army airmen were confident that they would continue to get the Ground Army's recognition. None had forgotten that George Marshall's recognition of the importance of the Air Forces has given the outfit a unique autonomy, and had even started Hap Arnold up to his five-star rank...
...Army game of passing the buck has to end somewhere. Overall Army policy is made in Washington by War Secretary Stimson, and General Marshall, Hap Arnold, other members of the General Staff...
...Unknown Battle (MARCH OF TIME; 20th Century-Fox), one of the best short films of the past year, explains graphically why, on Dday, the Luftwaffe could hardly lift a wing flap. Reason: the incredibly effective U.S. daylight bombings of German aircraft plants which, for the time being, as General "Hap" Arnold says in the film, in one week (Feb. 20-25) broke the back of the Luftwaffe...