Military historian Bill Yenne talked about his book, [Hap Arnold: The General Who Invented the U.S. Air Force], in which he recounts the career of General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold, commanding ...

Gen. Henry H. Arnold’s leadership of the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II was extraordinary, but his series of six books in the mid-1920s inspired a new generation of airmen.

This desk, used by General of the Air Force Henry H. "Hap" Arnold was acquired by Arnold after leaving West Point in 1907. NASM, gift of the family of Michael M. Mikita, MD ...

Henry Arnold overcame a fear of flying to become an Air Force general. He retired to Sonoma Valley in 1946. Henry “Hap” Arnold, whose name adorns Arnold Drive in Sonoma, was an aviation ...

When war-weary Air Force Gen. Hap Arnold was preparing to beat a final retreat in 1946, Washington reporters pressed him for his plans. The man who commanded the U.S. air assault on Germany and ...

Arnold built the U.S. Army Air Forces into the world’s mightiest air force of 72,000 planes and 2,300,000 men, the gigantic weapon that proved decisive in Europe and that devastated Japan.

The rising clamor for a separate, independent U.S. air force last week impelled the War Department to take action. Reporting this action to Congress, in an effort to stave off more drastic changes ...