Lieutenant General Henry “Hap” Arnold was appointed Major General, Carl Spaatz commanded the new Eighth Air Force. Brigadier ...

who commanded first the Eighth Bomber Command and then the Eighth Air Force through its first 17 months of combat, and General Henry “Hap” Arnold, the Army Air Force chief of staff. The third ...

Hap Arnold, chief of staff of the U.S. Army Air ... U.S. military attaché to act as a liaison between the Eighth Air Force and the Royal Air Force’s Fighter command. Hitchcock accepted the ...

In making buoyant Hap Arnold a general, Commander in Chief Roosevelt spotlighted the growth of the Army Air Forces, whose enrollment is expected to jump from 1,500,000 to about 2,450,000 by year ...

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 ...

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 ...