Word: haps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dream with Wings. General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, who is now in a place where he can make dreams come true, has had something like the B-29 in mind for many years. Early in 1940, his Air Forces asked for designs that would embody the Arnold idea; Boeing's was just the ticket. After first test flights in September 1942, scholarly Test Pilot Edmund T. ("Eddie") Allen reported: "We have an excellent airplane." Eddie Allen was later killed in one of the three crashes which marked the B-29's test-flying period...
...Boeing is converting its three plants (two in Washington, one in Kansas) entirely to B-29 production, and the plane will also be made at the Martin plant in Nebraska, the Bell plant in Georgia. Douglas and Lockheed will keep on making B-17s. Hap Arnold has said that, with the advent of the B29, the Fortress and Liberator would revert to the status of medium bombers. But there is no intention of discarding them on that account. In the relatively short-ranged European theater, there is a vast amount of work to be done not only by the four...
...help to promote a young officer in the Air Forces-as elsewhere in the Army- but in the A.A.F. there is still another factor. In the rapid Air Forces expansion following Pearl Harbor, young men were pushed into important jobs because they could do them. The policy of "Hap" Arnold (57), who respects youth more than most oldsters, was to bestow rank commensurate with the job, and to hell with seniority...
...France; and 2nd Lieut. Henry Shaw Beukema, 20, son of Colonel Herman Beukema, West Point's geopolitics expert ; after his graduation at West Point. Married. Barbara Jean Douglas, 21, only daughter of Plane Tycoon Donald Wills Douglas; and Lieut. William Bruce Arnold, 25, second son of General Henry ("Hap") Arnold, Army Air Forces chief; in Los Angeles. Married. Band Leader James ("Kay") Kyser, 38, schmaltzy "Professor of Musical Knowledge"; and Georgia Ann ("Gorgeous Georgia") Carroll, 24, onetime highest-paid Powers model ("The Chesterfield Girl"), now Kyser's sweet-voiced vocalist; both for the first time; in Las Vegas...
...Hap" Arnold led a bomber flight to Alaska. Jimmy Doolittle was the first man to fly across the U.S. in less than 24 hours. Major General William Kepner (the Eighth Air Force fighter commander) flew around in a stratosphere balloon. Spaatz himself commanded the famous endurance flight of the Fokker monoplane Question Mark. In his crew were Lieut. General Ira Eaker, now Allied air commander in the Mediterranean, and Brigadier General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, Ninth Air Force fighter commander in Britain...