Word: haps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First full colonel among the 19th's pilots is 29-year-old Richard Carmichael, the group's commander until it was relieved, now a bombardment officer on Lieut. General ("Hap") Arnold's staff. A sure bet to get a colonel's eagles was Felix Hardison, assigned as operations officer of General Olds's Second Air Force Bomber Command. Lieut. Colonel Ted Faulkner, already assigned to a Kansas air base, and Lieut. Colonel James Connally, assigned to a bombardment tactics school in Florida, were also in line for higher rank. Many enlisted men were being commissioned...
Dramatis Personae. This was a conference such as history had never seen. The President, with debonair disregard for proverbs about eggs in a single basket, took along Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall; COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King; Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, Chief of Army Air Forces; Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, Chief of the Army's Services of Supply; the President's alter ego Harry Hopkins. In Africa they were joined by Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the North African AEF; by Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, deputy commander; by Major General...
...from the Air Forces training school at Miami, they had been whisked to Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration, put through six weeks of courses ranging from statistical methods and analysis to pistol practice. There they had been fitted, at the inspiration of Lieut. General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, Chief of the USAAF, to apply the best technical methods of U.S. business to the Air Forces. Thus had the Air Forces made a new (and already successful) approach toward exactitude in a new, vastly complicated and swift-moving art: air logistics...
Next in might be the Chief of the Army Air Forces, Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold, still "Hap," still ruddy. The Air Forces are now "autonomous" within the Army; "Hap" Arnold is, in his own right, a man of increasing stature both in the Army and in Allied councils, but he is still subject to the Chief of Staff...
...When Hap Arnold arrived at Washington's Boiling Field, Assistant Secretary of War for Air Robert Lovett seized on the chance to decorate a good man, met the plane with a D.S.M. for the general and Air Medals for his crew...