Word: haps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill would make the Women's Air-force Service Pilots a part of "Hap" Arnold's Army Air Forces. It would expand the whole WASP program to train and commission more women pilots. The bill would also give colonel's rank to handsome, energetic Jacqueline Cochran, now chief of the WASPs, and one of the ablest of U.S. airwomen...
Wasted Manpower. Hap Arnold's argument has been that there is a serious aviation manpower shortage; the A.A.F. could use 2,000 to 2,500 WASPs. From unhappy C.A.A. flying instructors and C.A.A.-trained personnel came another story. They say they have found no place for their talents since the curtailment of the A.A.F. training program. They are available to ferry planes by the thousands. General Arnold waved their claims away, held fast for his WASPs...
Jackie Cochran maintained an anxious silence while Hap Arnold talked on. The committee kept its report in its desk. Ramspeck had not decided whether to release it officially or let the cold facts come out in debate when Cochran's WASPs are tossed onto the House floor...
Somehow the U.S. had not been able to work up any real rage over the latest wave of strikes. The Detroit foremen's strike, which made 60,000 men idle, had been knocked in the head quickly when the Air Forces Chief, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, told the War Labor Board at a public hearing that the Air Forces had lost 250 Mustang fighters through the strike. But the strike brought few letters to editors, and few editorial cartoons. Below the level of Washington bigwigs, no one seemed outraged...
When Twining arrived in Washington last December, due for 30 days' rest, he dropped in to see General H. H. Arnold. "How do you feel?" asked Hap. Twining admitted he was a bit tired. Said Arnold: "You don't look a damn bit tired to me. Report in Italy Jan. 1 and take over the Fifteenth Air Force." Twining moved on. Between Dec. 14 and Jan. 1 he traveled 17,000 miles. But it was worth it. In power his new Fifteenth is second only to the Eighth Air Force in England...