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...adjunct of the U.S. Army Air Forces will be out of operation by Christmas-and its members do not like the idea a bit. Last week, with appropriate regrets, General "Hap" Arnold, boss of U.S.A.A.F., announced that the WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots) would be disbanded...
...done a man-sized job of flying for the Army, had asked for it. Through their head woman, famed speed-flying Jacqueline Cochran (wife of tycoon Floyd B. Odlum), they had demanded the same military status as the WACs, WAVEs, SPARs and Women Marines. In spite of Hap Arnold's earnest support of the plan, which would have made Jackie Cochran a colonel, Congress had turned thumbs down...
...attack Anshan, with smaller diversionary blows at Dairen, on the Kwantung Peninsula, and at Loyang and Kaifeng, in occupied China. Every plane that left the ground returned safely-adding to the evidence that the last bugs are being driven out of the giant bombers. Radioed happy General ("Hap") Arnold to the 20th Bombardment Group: "I reserve a special pat on the back for your ground crews and all maintenance and supply crews...
Vice President's Vest. Kalish and Kiplinger had problems galore. General "Hap" Arnold was approached on the eve of the invasion of France, barely found time to fling a polite refusal. Henry Wallace had vest trouble-his shirt showed above his trouser line. Once that was adjusted, the Vice President struck a satisfactory, thumb-in-belt attitude. John L. Lewis loomed rather than posed, as though facing a hostile audience...
...Forces General "Hap" Arnold made Dick Carmichael his executive assistant, sent him on inspection trips. When the time came to pick men for the Twentieth Air Force-the Superfortress command-Carmichael was given one of the first groups. He flew every B-29 mission until Aug. 20. That day four B-29s were shot down over Japan. The pilot of one of them, listed last week as "missing," was Colonel Richard Carmichael...