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The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it
It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
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Mighty Eighth Air Force celebrates 83rd anniversary
Lieutenant General Henry “Hap” Arnold was appointed Major General, Carl Spaatz commanded the new Eighth Air Force. Brigadier General Frank Hunter, of Savannah, was put in charge of Fighter ...
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Book Review: The US Eighth Air Force in World War II: Ira Eaker, Hap Arnold, and Building American Air Power, 1942-1943
The evolution of US daylight bombing, and the aircraft associated ... Eighth Air Force through its first 17 months of combat, and General Henry “Hap” Arnold, the Army Air Force chief of staff. The ...