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...Washington when the Mitchell row burst into flame. After the trial, Hap went into exile at Fort Riley, Kans., but later he began the rounds again. By this time he was a well-educated airman, with service in all the branches of the Air Corps and assorted experience as commander of flying fields, director of all the CCC camps in California, student at the best Army schools...
...most of all he liked flying, and when in 1934 the Army adopted his pet project, a survey of Alaska (Mitchell: "Who controls Alaska controls the Pacific"), Hap Arnold led the survey flight. That flight won him the Mackay Trophy for the second time and put Hap Arnold near the top of the Air Corps, with the rank of brigadier general...
...Hap Arnold had gone into infantry when he left the Academy in 1907, switched to flying in 1911, taking lessons from the Wrights and becoming one of the Army's first four military aviators.* From the start he was a spectacular airman. He still has a scar on his chin from the crack-up he prizes most. Hanging in the wreckage of his plane off Plymouth Beach in 1912, he saw help coming: two old codgers in G.A.R. uniforms in a rowboat. They passed him by; they were against airplanes...
...from his ruddy face and he seldom gets into a pursuit ship. His mount is the big bomber, which he insisted on developing in the U.S. when the minds of British airmen were on fighters. And he always takes along his lanky aide, Colonel Eugene Beebe, as copilot, for Hap Arnold's theory is that old fellows tire out and may need help at the end of a long flight. So far Colonel Beebe has found nothing to substantiate the boss's theory...
...prove this assertion is not the object of U.S. airmen. But their job is to prove it as far as concerns the enemy's armies and navies. And on the shoulders of Hap Arnold falls the major responsibility...