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...important fact is that this one of Mitchell's followers is today commanding general of the Army Air Forces. Deep-chested, rugged "Hap" Arnold, now white-haired but still grinning with the habitual benignity that has kept his West Point nickname alive through 35 years of Army service, will direct the U.S. Air Forces in the big smash on Germany. Then a new champion may be crowned...
Wait & See. Hap Arnold has made no predictions. He has marshaled the beginnings of what will soon be the greatest air force in the world, has already shipped some of it to Britain to join in the Big Push. But Army airmen have learned better than to talk as loudly as Billy Mitchell did. All they say is: "Wait...
...would be. Orders from the Allies had set U.S. aircraft factories humming; designers, encouraged by the Army, & Navy, were ready with new engines and aircraft; U.S. industry was ready. And oldtime believers in air power, such as Frank Andrews (commander of the Canal Zone), Delos Emmons (of Hawaii) and Hap Arnold, held the top Air Force commands...
...older Scouts and ex-Scouts who have outgrown dispatch and collection services, there is great demand from recruiting officers. Frank Knox wants the Sea Scouts to sign up for the Navy. Paul McNutt has asked them not to forget the Merchant Marine. Lieut. General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold says that the newest Scout project of Air Scouts (15 years and older) who will receive ground and flight background training is "great news to the Army Air Corps...
They are landing in Northern Ireland and England, and they will land in France." There were more signs. General Somervell did not arrive alone in England. He arrived with an imposing accompaniment of special U.S. talent: Rear Admiral Jack Towers, head of the Naval Air Service; Lieut. General Hap Arnold, Chief of Army Air Forces; Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower, operations chief of the Army General Staff; Brigadier General William C. Lee, hard-bitten boss of the Army's parachutists and airborne troops...