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...whale of a job in the U.S. itself. Besides ferrying planes to jumping-off points, it must transport troops, carry military air freight, find or train pilots for over-water runs. As the job grew greater, it needed more management manpower. The Air Corps Chief, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, looked around for a helper, last week tapped tall, drawling Cyrus Rowlett Smith, American Airlines president, for the job. "C.R.," an ace airline executive, pushed American to the top of the domestic airline heap...
Brain of the C.P. is a vast octagonal room where the Chiefs of Staff and their top officers meet. Around a great table sit General Marshall, Field Marshal Sir John Dill. Admirals Ernest King and Sir Charles Little, Lieut. General "Hap" Arnold of the U.S. Army Air Forces, Air Marshal Arthur Travers Harris of the R.A.F., Chinese, Dutch and Australian representatives. There also sits pallid Harry Hopkins, all-powerful Chairman of the Munitions Assignment Board, who has an office in the building...
Under him three men will steer the Army of the future : Air Force - Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap" for happy) Arnold, white-thatched, genial, 55, veteran flyer, ex-juvenile fiction writer; Ground Force -slender, studious Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, 58; Supply -soft-spoken, hard-driving Major General (likely soon to be Lieut. General) Brehon Somervell...
...Force. No longer will old-line generals, ignorant of air-force problems, interfere with air-force development. As head man, Hap Arnold will have equal voice with his two opposite numbers, will have his own general staff and administrative setup. Most air force officers practically trod...
...Forces also got its own general staff. In organization, at least, the air arm is now an air army, comparable to the ground army. To head his staff, "Hap" Arnold, the Chief of the Army, picked Brigadier General Carl M. Spaatz, who last week was upped to two stars and command of the Combat Command. "Tooey" Spaatz's successor as Chief of Air Staff, appointed last week, is Major General Millard F. Harmon, studious, West Point-trained onetime-cavalryman and pursuit pilot...