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...Arnold, commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces, reported to the U.S. public this week in the first official summary of Air Forces accomplishments since the U.S. entered the war. Since Pearl Harbor the Army Air Forces has grown to be the world's biggest air power. Said "Hap" Arnold of one of the most dramatic developments of fighting power in history: "It is now plain that for us the beginning has ended; for our enemies the end has begun...
...building of a great striking force Hap Arnold gave first credit to production men like Lieut. General William Knudsen, air-minded men like Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Secretary of War for Air. He could also have added-the Army's professional airmen, like Hap Arnold himself...
...Marshal Peirse's deputy, studious Major General George E. Stratemeyer, was Chief of Staff for General "Hap" Arnold before going to field duty in India last summer. There General Stratemeyer commanded both Brigadier General Howard C. Davidson's Tenth Air Force (India) and Chennault's famed Fourteenth (China...
Allied air blows will knock out Germany or leave the Nazis too groggy to resist invasion. So predicted ebullient General "Hap" Arnold, Chief of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Said he: "As the number of bombers increases, the percentage of losses is going to decrease. Operations from Italy are going to force the Germans to spread their defenses. . . . We hope to bring over Europe such [forces] that, with Russia, we will have 360-degree bombing of Germany-hitting her from every side...
When the numbers increase, when huge new bombers now a-making arrive in Britain and the Mediterranean, Hap Arnold's predictions may come true. Until then, the blows that count will be the blows delivered by bombers, not by prophecy...