Hap Arnold : the general who invented the U.S. Air Force / Bill Yenne.

General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold is widely considered the father of the United States Air Force. But his long list of accomplishments doesn't begin or end there. He was also the first and only five-star general of the US Air Force; one of the first US military aviators; the first American to carry...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yenne, Bill, 1949-
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Regnery History, [2013]
Subjects:
Arnold, Henry Harley, > 1886-1950.
United States. > Army Air Forces > Biography.
United States. > Air Force > Biography.
Generals > United States > Biography.
Air power > United States.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
General who invented the U.S. Air force.
General who invented the United States Air Force.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Early days
  • A young airman takes to the air
  • A youn officer on the career ladder
  • The struggle for airpower
  • Years of exile
  • Washington and war clouds
  • The Magna Carta of American airpower
  • A new Air Force goes to war
  • Building the Air Forces
  • The Pacific Theater
  • The plan
  • Mission to China
  • Pressures of office
  • Strategic airpower at the crossroads
  • allied war strategy at the crossroads
  • Big weeks and long days
  • At the apogee of expansion
  • Out of darkness, the light of dawn
  • But their war goes on
  • The climax
  • His legacy
  • The Valley of the Moon and beyond.