Word: harley
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Thus General Henry Harley 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...
...many people the General's crime was no greater than the Army's in hushing it up for so long. Said Senator Harley M. Kilgore (D. W.Va.) : "When officers make mistakes they should not be shielded...
...Pursuit of Power. Yet the quest for more power in combat aircraft goes on. The new superbombers which General Henry Harley ("Hap") Arnold seriously promised would make "the Fortresses of today . . . the medium bombers of tomorrow" will see service before this war is over. New fighters, which should be better than anything now flying in combat, are now flying in test before production...
...last week a little group of Congressmen got together to crusade for their idea. Joining forces were Harry S. Truman and Harley M. Kilgore (of the Senate's Truman Investigating Committee), John H. Tolan (of the House's Tolan Investigating Committee), James E. Murray (Senate Small Business Committee) and Claude Pepper (Senate Labor Committee). New Dealers all, they went ahead this time without White House approval. Said they: "In eight months this war can be won if we tackle now a resolute overhauling of the war-production machine...
...George, who testified for him in his court-martial in 1926, is a brigadier bossing the Ferrying Command. One of Mitchell's defense counsels, Annapolis-educated Lewis Hyde Brereton, is a major general in command of U.S. Air Forces in India and China. Another defense witness, Henry Harley Arnold, has gone farther than the rest...