Word: haps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bible, a thesaurus, and a leather-bound pictorial history of the U.S. In rapid order, President Truman had a 45-minute conference with Secretary of State Stettinius, then a 48-minute session with the war leaders: Generals Marshall, Vandegrift and the Air Forces' Barney M. Giles (subbing for "Hap" Arnold); Admiral King; Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal. At noon he broke his first precedent: he went up to Capitol Hill for lunch...
...Pacific war. The boss will be the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They will continue to run the show from Washington. Directly responsible to the Joint Chiefs for "conducting specific operations" will be General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, with a third partner-Hap Arnold of the Army Air Forces...
...Army, where one airman ("Hap" Arnold) wears five stars and three old-time aviators are four-star generals, it was different. Last week an Army promotion list raised three aviators to three-star rank, making a total of ten Army airmen with the rank of lieutenant general. The three new ones: tall, handsome, 46-year-old Hoyt S. Vandenberg, boss of the Ninth Air Force on the Continent, and nephew of Michigan's Senator; bald-headed John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 53, boss of the Twelfth Air Force in Italy (and no kin to the late, famed G.O.P. Speaker...
Nazi airborne coups in Crete and the Low Countries opened many military eyes, and some of the U.S. Army's best brains, including Air Forces General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold and the late, great Ground Forces chief, Lieut. General Lesley J. ("Whitey") McNair, lent support and advice to the U.S. paratroop and glider program. That program really got rolling in 1942, with the setting up of two full airborne divisions...
...Army Air Forces lifted the veil of security, just a trifle, on its fancy new jet fighter. General "Hap" Arnold announced that the new Lockheed P-80 was in production, said it had been named the Shooting Star. Presumably familiar with what the Germans have in the air over the western front, General Arnold called the P-80 the world's fastest fighter plane...