Word: haps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heading the U.S. delegation were the joint chiefs of staff: Admiral Leahy, General Marshall with a party of 15 officers, the Navy's Admiral King with six, Air Forces General Hap Arnold with eleven. For the Service Forces, Lieut. General Brehon Somervell brought a staff of nine. Army, Navy, Air had separate groups. General Eisenhower came up from Algiers; Lieut. General Stilwell and Major General Chennault flew in from China...
Among the gold-braid dignitaries was the Army Air Forces' chief, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold; among the gold-plated stars: Bob Hope. Then next day the soldier-performers began a house-to-house buttonholing, doorbell-ringing campaign to round up more Boeing recruits...
...Pursuit of Power. Yet the quest for more power in combat aircraft goes on. The new superbombers which General Henry Harley ("Hap") Arnold seriously promised would make "the Fortresses of today . . . the medium bombers of tomorrow" will see service before this war is over. New fighters, which should be better than anything now flying in combat, are now flying in test before production...
Tough as CAB proposes to be with civilian offenders, it lacks power to deal with the parallel problem of skylarking Army pilots. CAB Chairman Lloyd Welch Pogue has complained to General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold about wild Army flying on the airways, but that is all; the Air Forces alone can discipline Air Forces pilots...
...Army Air Forces, now larger than the U.S. Navy, training expansion is nearly over, fighting expansion dead ahead. Last week A.A.F. General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold underlined this fact by recasting part of his command...