Word: haps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Henry H. Arnold is younger (59) but wartime strain has aged him perceptibly. Last week forthright "Hap" Arnold said wearily at a press conference (perhaps his last) that he would retire soon. "I intend to go out and sit under an oak tree and I'll shoot down the first fellow that flies over in an airplane," said the man who built up an air force of 64,591 planes and 2,282,259 airmen...
...General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's Strategic Air Force (Superfortresses from Doolittle's Eighth and LeMay's Twentieth-TIME, July 16) will operate under neither Nimitz nor MacArthur. Its bosses: General "Hap" Arnold and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington...
Future Strategy. For once, the admirals and ground commanders seemed more optimistic than the air generals. Even the airmen's General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, who yields to no man in all-around cheeriness, conceded that the Japs might last through 1946. Behind this unusual alignment, observers could detect a mild conflict in strategy: the admirals seemed to favor invasion of Japan at the earliest possible moment as the best way to get the war finished quickly; some airmen clung to the hope that air power, given enough time, could pound Japan into surrender...
...Airmen. Soon the Pacific command will be a full-fledged trinity. Ever since November 1944 the 21st Bomber Command, now bossed by tough, cigar-smoking Major General Curtis LeMay, has been an independent unit in the Pacific. It is a part of the Twentieth Air Force, commanded by General "Hap" Arnold and responsible only...
...Arnold dropped in on Guam to hunt up parking space for some of his 12,000 European combat airplanes, and prepared to realign air force commands for the big Pacific push. While 520 of his Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortresses bombed shuddering Osaka for the fifth time, proud Hap Arnold outlined to correspondents the kind of punishment U.S. airmen planned for Japan...