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Five star silver General of the Air Force insignia from Hap Arnold's uniform, both shoulders. NASM, donated by Mrs. Henry H. Arnold United States Air Force summer class "A" service uniform coat ...
Henry H. "Hap" Arnold (Thomas D. McAvoy/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images) Gen. Henry H. “Hap” Arnold’s leadership of the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II was extraordinary and ...
Lt. Gen. Henry "Hap" Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, addresses four flying schools, the largest group of aviation cadets ever gathered, in December 1942. He promised to boost U ...
Henry Arnold overcame a fear of flying to become an Air Force general. He retired to Sonoma Valley in 1946. Henry “Hap” Arnold, whose name adorns Arnold Drive in Sonoma, was an aviation ...
When war-weary Air Force Gen. Hap Arnold was preparing to beat a final retreat in 1946, Washington reporters pressed him for his plans. The man who commanded the U.S. air assault on Germany and ...
That Major General Henry H. (“Hap”‘) Arnold, who used to be Chief of Air Corps but was kicked upstairs to the General Staff last year, is now the one & only commander of The Army Air Forces.
I am pleased and privileged to present a special military aviation article by former Bucknell president and highly regarded, Gary Sojka. He is honored and well-remembered by the Sojka Athletic ...
Henry H. (“Hap”) Arnold last week became the 13th* U.S. soldier, and the first airman, to wear the four stars of a general. The Senate confirmed the appointment immediately. In making buoyant ...
ROTC cadets at the University of Cincinnati created the Arnold Air Society in 1947. It was named after Gen. Henry “Hap” Arnold, the Air Force’s only five-star general.
At the conclusion of World War II, Gen. Henry H. "Hap" Arnold made a prediction: "We have just won a war with a lot of heroes flying around in planes. The next war may be fought by airplanes with ...
Studios. The United States had entered World War II the previous December, and Lieutenant General Henry “Hap” Arnold had spent the past four months shaping his air force into one of the most ...