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...Army Air Forces, now larger than the U.S. Navy, training expansion is nearly over, fighting expansion dead ahead. Last week A.A.F. General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold underlined this fact by recasting part of his command...
...caliber cannon of an entirely new principle of operation. Fighter planes will have advanced almost beyond recognition in form and in the combat equipment they carry." What made these predictions news this week was their author: not Major de Seversky, writing for the aviation press, but General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, in a special article for Army Ordnance, one of the most sober-sided of military publications...
...writer before him has added two & two and concluded that the progress of design inevitably would lead to much bigger planes, with radio detecting and sighting devices and heavy guns remotely operated from a central fire-control position. Whether he expects these superplanes in time for this war, Hap Arnold did not say. But he stated flatly that "planes with surprising developments in heavy aircraft cannon will soon appear on the combat fronts...
This was no cat-&-dog wrangle. Behind the potent new committee (The Airlines Committee on International Routes) was the tremendous prestige-and smart flyer's brains-of the Army Air Forces' chief, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold. Ten days ago, General Arnold hastily called a hush-hush meeting in Washington of the U.S. airlines which operate routes for the Army's world-straddling Air Transport Command. (Pan American was included.) General Arnold advised them to take steps...
...Plane for plane and against some odds, we can take care of the Hap all right. And we can take care of the Japanese pilots. Their quality has been running down quite a bit on the average. But they're not out of first-line pilots in the South Pacific. When the Japs are on a job they think is important, they have the first team...