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General H. H. Arnold Field (Athletic Field) at Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, 19003, is named for Arnold. [Hap Arnold was] a dedicated officer in a specialized field, ... and at the same time, a human being, a warm-hearted, loyal, mercurial, flamboyantly belligerent fellow who didn't care who he took on in battle.
Heinrich-Hartmut Richard Gustav "Henry" Arnhold (September 15, 1921 – August 23, 2018) was an American banker and philanthropist. [1] He was born in Dresden, the fourth child of Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold. The Arnhold family owned Arnhold Brothers, one of Germany's largest private banks, founded
General of the Air Force Henry H. Arnold, USAF – Commander of the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey – Commander of the 3rd Fleet in World War II; General Joseph E. Johnston, CSA – Confederate general; General Frederick Kroesen – Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army
On 12 November 1945, General of the Army Henry H. Arnold, the commanding general of the United States Army Air Forces, sent a report to Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson emphasizing that the future United States Air Force would need to invest heavily in space and ballistic missile capabilities, rather than just focus on current aircraft.
The immediate impetus for the creation of RAND was a conversation in September 1945 between General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold and Douglas executive Franklin R. Collbohm. [23] Both men were deeply worried that ongoing demobilization meant the federal government was about to lose direct control of the vast amount of American scientific brainpower ...
1st Lt. Henry H. Arnold, 29th Infantry – second rated Military Aviator (July 5, 1912) Capt. Paul W. Beck, Signal Corps – first nominal head of an operational aviation unit in 1911–12, first advocate of a separate air service; 2d Lt. Lewis H. Brereton, Coast Artillery Corps – only member to retire (1948) as part of USAF
These were speeds Lockheed engineers considered useless for their purposes. General Henry H. Arnold took up the matter and overruled NACA objections to higher air speeds. NACA built a handful of new high-speed wind tunnels, and Mach 0.75 (570 mph (495 kn; 917 km/h)) was reached at Moffett's 16-foot (4.9 m) wind tunnel late in 1942. [10] [11]
Lieutenant General Jimmy Doolittle was the first president of the Air Force Association. Even before the end of World War II, General of the Army Henry H. Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, was beginning to consider establishing an organization for the three million airmen under his command who would become veterans after the war ended.