Eighty-eight years ago this month, the Army and the Signal Corps capabilities transformed with the first successful ...

Gen. Hap Arnold wrote to him while he was in the hospital and said: “I regard your act as one of the bravest in the records of this war.” Despite all fears to the contrary, Erwin did survive.

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.

When the task became too demanding because England was the only European country capable of withstanding German advances after France fell in 1940, Gen. Henry H. "Hap" Arnold devised the Army Air ...

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 ...

(Library of Congress) Upon America’s entry into the Second World War, the 41-year-old volunteered his services as a fighter pilot but was turned down personally by Gen. Hap Arnold, chief of ...

Credit: Ken LaRock Credit: Ken LaRock The roots of the organization go back to 1942, where General Henry H. Arnold created two groups consisting of women to help support the military’s needs to ...

So, it began to enlist the experience of hundreds of qualified female pilots. Commanding General Hap Arnold in 1942 formed a squadron of women to ferry training aircraft from factories to bases ...

Eighty-three years ago, January 28, 1942, the charter for the Eighth Air Force was created in a former National Guard Armory, 1108 Bull Street in Savannah, Georgia. Its main objective was two-fold: ...

If any one man could be said to personify the U.S. Air Force, General Henry Harley (“Hap”) Arnold was that man. He attended its birth, grew up with it, commanded it all through its great years ...