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Commander of the flight was Army Air Chief Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, whose trip to Australia was unannounced until his return. Previous recordholder: Lieut. General George Brett, who made it on his return from U.S. Air Forces in Australia last month...
...When Hap Arnold arrived at Washington's Boiling Field, Assistant Secretary of War for Air Robert Lovett seized on the chance to decorate a good man, met the plane with a D.S.M. for the general and Air Medals for his crew...
Airmen had hoped that with the three stars raising him to rank comparable with Army Air Chief "Hap" Arnold's he would get the job of Vice Chief of Naval Operations for Air, at last giving the air arm a voice in the grand strategy of the war. Neither promotions for top airmen nor the expected naval reorganization ever materialized. Instead Towers got the undefined job of Commander of the Pacific Fleet Air Forces, which put him on the staff of Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet-an apparently anomalous position since the carriers over...
...effort, made move No. 2 last week to get at the heart of the controversy over the quality of U.S. war planes. Move No. 1 was his blast on Sept. 14 at their inferior performance in some weight and type categories. Now he called Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces, for questioning...
...Hap Arnold was on the spot. U.S. fighter pilots in England had damned the present production models of U.S. fighting planes (Curtiss P-40, Bell Airacobra P-39) in no uncertain terms only a fortnight after the top air general had described all U.S.-built military aircraft in syrupy language (TIME...