Now he called Lieut. General Henry H. (“Hap”) Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces, for questioning. Hap Arnold was on the spot. U.S. fighter pilots in England had damned the present ...

Henry Harley (“Hap”) Arnold had a conversation that five-star General Arnold still likes to remember. Infantry Captain Billy Mitchell, 32, had just come back from Japan where he had had a look ...

Major Henry H. Arnold with first Liberty V12 engine completed ... but survived to become a five-star general of the Army, which was later changed to general of the Air Force after it became ...

As we head into the days leading up to Game #128, one would like to think that Dotterer’s “real meaning” has prevailed, and ...

Ultimately the Women’s Flying Training Detachment (WFTD), and the elite Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) were amalgamated into what would in June 1943 become the Women’s Airforce Service ...

In 1941, racing pilot Jacqueline Cochran, who had the ear of General of the Army Air Corps, Henry “Hap” Arnold, selected a group of 24 women pilots to ferry military aircraft in Great Britain ...

One of these men was Chief of Staff of the Army Air Force, General Henry “Hap” Arnold. Under his direction, a number of U.S. and foreign aircraft were selected for preservation, and the Hawker ...

As General Henry “Hap” Arnold was heard to say,” But for the P-40, the Japanese would have come to Australia.” The post The P-40 Warhawk: A Stalwart Defender That Fell Just Short of ...

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 ...

Henry H. Arnold, 93, Adamstown, died Jan. 1, 2017, in Ephrata Hospital. Born in Adamstown, he was a son of the late Howard J. and Mary (Houshower) Arnold. A plumber, he worked for Wellington Glass ...