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These are typical achievements of a group of flyers who have had much less attention than fighter and bomber pilots, but whose job is one of the most skilled and dangerous in the air. Addressing the photogrammetrists, Air Chief Henry ("Hap") Arnold observed that "often a camera mounted on a P-38 has proved of far greater importance than a P-38 with its normal complement of guns...
...Forces General "Hap" Arnold had said that the new superbomber, the Boeing B29, would make the Flying Fortress shrink to the size of a medium bomber. And that was about all the U.S. public knew about the B29, until last week...
Training went as rapidly. Men now in training every day number over 120,000. In 1943 the A.A.F. flew over 3,352,000,000 miles in the U.S. alone, which accounts for a seemingly alarming rate of A.A.F. accidents. Actually, reported Hap Arnold, the accident rate is lower than the average rate for the peacetime years 1931 40. The trend of accidents is now down...
...Hap Arnold made no promises, but it was plain that, even though he kept a tight grip on his irrepressible optimism, he did not think the end, already begun, was in any doubt...
...Florida boom was so big that Press-agent Steve Hannagan no longer has to work at his job of puffing Miami Beach. The Army Air Forces flyers, transferred to Miami by Hap Arnold for rest and relaxation after battle experience, were paying as much as $40 a day for small hotel rooms, $3 to $4 for meals. This hurt: many service wives could not afford to stay near their husbands. Even old Floridians, used to the routine annual outrage, thought things had gone too far. Many a furloughing airmaa was returning to his bomber station dead broke. Some servicemen stationed...