It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
Lieutenant General Henry “Hap” Arnold was appointed Major General, Carl Spaatz commanded the new Eighth Air Force. Brigadier General Frank Hunter, of Savannah, was put in charge of Fighter ...
More by H. H. Arnold This article was originally published with the title “ Building American Aviation ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 117 No. 22 ( December 1917 ) , p. 414 doi: 10.1038 ...