Word: haps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women now enrolled in the WASPs, some 500 are still in training at Sweetwater, Tex. Hap Arnold said that the A.A.F. would need from one to two thousand more. Though he once privately stated that he did not want women in the A.A.F., he now backed a bill to legitimatize the WASPs, make them officially a part of the A.A.F. with the same kind of status as the WACs, WAVES, SPARS and Women Marines...
...army counterpart (of which the Army reputedly takes a dim view) would make Chief of Staff George Marshall and Air Forces' "Hap" Arnold five-star generals (equals British field marshal...
George Marshall's objection was neatly skirted by providing for a title with American precedent: General of the Armies. If the bills are passed, he and General "Hap" Arnold will get the new rank now held only by John J. Pershing, and held in the past only by three other U.S. fighting men: Grant, Sherman and Sheridan...
...operations-tent bulletin board at a U.S. advanced fighter base in Italy good news was pinned up last week: an official commendation by Army Air Forces' Chief "Hap" Arnold. Reason for the commendation: the squadron had shot down eight German aircraft in one day, four in another. Score for three days' missions had totaled twelve kills, two probables, four damaged...
These are typical achievements of a group of flyers who have had much less attention than fighter and bomber pilots, but whose job is one of the most skilled and dangerous in the air. Addressing the photogrammetrists, Air Chief Henry ("Hap") Arnold observed that "often a camera mounted on a P-38 has proved of far greater importance than a P-38 with its normal complement of guns...