Word: power
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four? Captain Mitchell was writing a paper for the War College on the future of military aviation, but since he had not yet learned to fly he needed to pump one of the handful of U.S. officers-like Hap Arnold-who had. Thirty-three years and endless air power controversies later, Hap Arnold had fully vindicated Billy Mitchell's impassioned predictions, commanded enough air power to have wiped Japan...
...tersely marshaled facts and concise, West Point English of General Dwight Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe. But Hap Arnold's military life spans the whole life of military aviation, and no one now living can speak with more authority about the growth of air power. Global Mission is a big, gabby book, easygoing and easy to read. For any reader trying to assemble the rounded story of World War II, it is one of the very few essential books written so far. For any student of aviation it is a clear must...
...lieutenant of infantry in 1907. When he saw Louis Bleriot's English Channel-hopping monoplane on exhibition in Paris in 1909, he didn't even know what the freakish contraption was. When he figured it out, his first.thought forecast the futures of both Hap Arnold and air power. "If one man could do it once, what if a lot of men did it together at the same time?" Two years later, in answer to a War Department call, he volunteered to learn to fly at the Wright Brothers' field in Dayton. Said his disapproving commanding officer: "Young...
...Washington. His account of those years is the familiar one of War Department myopia, never enough and that too late. Billy Mitchell wanted to bomb Germany, but the U.S. hadn't a single bomber. When Mitchell was court-martialed in 1925 for his obstreperous advocacy of air power, his friend & follower Hap Arnold was sent off to rusticate at Fort Riley. Determined not to quit under fire, Arnold passed up the job as president and general manager of Pan American Airways...
Czechoslovakia has called upon its National Union of Students for voluntary work-brigades since April, 1948--two months after the Communists came into power. Czech universities reward work brigade members with "special concessions on examinations for participants," and students in coal-mining brigades receive special make-up courses...