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

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Washington, D.C. : Regnery History, 2013.

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Description	1 online resource (344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	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 air mail; and the architect of the war-winning air strategy of World War II.
Note	Print version record.
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.
Subject	Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950.
	United States. Army Air Forces -- Biography.
	United States. Air Force -- Biography.
	Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950. (OCoLC)fst00092036
	United States. Air Force. (OCoLC)fst00538280
	United States. Army Air Forces. (OCoLC)fst00549671
	Generals -- United States -- Biography.
	Air power -- United States.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
	HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
	Air power. (OCoLC)fst00802495
	Generals. (OCoLC)fst00939841
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950.
	Generals -- United States -- Biography.
	United States. Army Air Forces -- Biography.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Yenne, Bill, 1949- Hap Arnold 9781621570813 (OCoLC)826444605
ISBN	9781621571759 (electronic bk.)
	1621571750 (electronic bk.)

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