Lt. Henry "Hap" Arnold seated in
a Wright Military Flyer, 1912. |
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Hap Arnold landing at College Park MD, 1912.
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Any landing you can walk away from, Hap Arnold (far right) and the remains of a Wright Flyer, about 1912.
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Hap Arnold with early US Army aviators, circa 1920.
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General Hap Arnold with the boss,
President Franklin Roosevelt, in North Africa, 1943.
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Getting the straight story from
his boys; Hap Arnold with the troops, North Africa, 1943.
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Taking a close look at what he's buying, Hap Arnold on the wing of a fighter plane in production circa 1944. By this time Gen. Arnold was the Czar of all aircraft production in the United States. With the stroke of a pen he could order or cancel thousand of new models.
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Jimmy Doolittle reports to the Chief after the Tokyo Raid. Bolling AFB, Washington, DC, June 27, 1942.
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On the beaches of Normandy, Omar Bradley and Hap Arnold compare notes, June 12, 1944.
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Normandy, June 12, 1944, General Tooey Spaatz, Arnold's Air Commander for Northern Europe, fills in his Boss and old friend after D-Day.
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The Top Brass meet in France, June 13, 1944: Arnold (Air Force), King (Navy), Ike (Supreme Allied Commander Europe) and Marshall (Army). All would be promoted to 5 Star Rank before war's end.
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General George Kenney, MacArthur's Air Commander, meets with the Chief in Florida, 1945.
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Two old friends, General George Patton and Hap Arnold meet in Germany at the Potsdam Conference, 1945.
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Jackie Cochran and Hap Arnold dine with the WASPS (Women Airforce Service Pilots) at Sweetwater, Texas circa 1944. One of Arnold's favorite projects, the WASPS flew every aircraft in the US inventory including the first US Jet Fighter.
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Always a pilot first, Hap Arnold in the left seat of his C-41 (one up designation for a VIP DC-3) the Argonaut, sometime in 1943.
This historic airplane still flies, today out of Oakland Airport with Sentimental Journeys.
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| Two pals out for a sail compare fish that got away: Designer/manufacturer Donald Douglas and Hap Arnold on the Douglas yacht Endymion, 1945, off Catalina Island. Friends for over 30 years, their relationship resulted in the production of tens of thousands of aircraft during World War II. |
The Teheran Conference, 1943, General Hap Arnold with Churchill and Stalin. |
Official 1945 Portrait of the first, last and only airman to achieve 5 Star Rank. |
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| The famous model airplane collection. On display for many years in Sonoma CA, this unique set of every model of aircraft produced or proposed for the US Army is now located at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO. Here, Bee Arnold, Hap Arnold's widow, shows it to friends about 1951. |
Bruce Arnold, Col. USAF (ret) 1918-1992, at the public introduction of Chandelle Wines, Gathering of Eagles 1986. |
Barbara Douglas Arnold, 1922-1996, enjoying a story about flying with W.W.II Battle of Britain Ace, Peter Townsend at the Gathering of Eagles in Las Vegas, 1986. |
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Kathy Arnold in the vineyards at the Arnold family's El Rancho Feliz checking the pruning on our Cabernet Sauvignon. March 2004. |
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