Word: haps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could be said to personify the U.S. Air Force, General Henry Harley ("Hap") Arnold was that man. He attended its birth, grew up with it, commanded it all through its great years in World War II. He was its first five-star general...
Born the son of a country doctor near Philadelphia, Hap Arnold was the fourth U.S. pilot to be commissioned. Those were the days when the Air Corps had four planes and was a branch of the Signal Corps. Hap was taught to fly in Dayton by the Wright brothers. The planes he flew made 42 miles an hour and the only instrument was a piece of string tied to the undercarriage; if it did not tail straight back, the plane was sideslipping. Hap was the first to direct artillery fire by airborne radio, the first to show that planes could...
...Will Generals Eisenhower and Kenney move over, and make room for General "Hap" Arnold...