Hap Arnold Quotes
If there was ever any doubt in anyone’s mind that women can become skillful pilots, the WASPs have dispelled that doubt.
Over 1000 WASPs--Women Airforce Service Pilots—flew and tested all kinds of military aircraft, thus freeing up male pilots for combat. They transported planes and key personnel, tested new airplanes, and even towed targets for anti-aircraft trainees to practice firing at. 38 WASPS died in the line of duty and the government did not even pay for the funerals. In 1977 Congress finally recognized WASPs as Veterans of WWII.
Henry H. Arnold, 1886–1950, [Hap Arnold], Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II
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The CAA was the Civil Aeronautics Administration, the forerunner to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Prior to WWII there were few women in the labor force, and the traditional “values” of American society relegated women to be homemakers. However with so many men under arms, there were not enough workers to achieve the war production that was necessary. So changes had to be made in public attitudes, not only towards women working, but the nature of the work that they are capable of and ought to be doing. So the government took a proactive role in changing public attitudes towards women in the workforce. It was a successful effort, and the sociological and psychological effects are still felt, half a century later. See {584781}.
This quotation illustrates the statement of a reform principle to appease international interests in basic human rights. This type of statement provides the “fig leaf” for the UN and other organizations to pretend that international standards of human rights are being maintained. Nasser did not implement this principle. By the beginning of the 21st century, Egypt was finally making some progress on women’s equality issues. The prohibition on female members of Parliament—{586723}—had been reversed but women were still not allowed to be judges in a criminal trial, laws against infant female circumcision, and other elements of female equality were still not in existence.
She was overly optimistic. She would be dead for 30 years before women got the vote and some would argue that full equality has not been reached yet.
This was de facto Equal Rights legislation.
Henry Harley Arnold was an American general officer holding the ranks of General of the Army and General of the Air Force. Arnold was an aviation pioneer, Chief of the Air Corps (1938–1941), Commanding General of the United States Army Air Forces, the only United States Air Force general to hold five-star rank, and the only officer to hold a five-star rank in two different U.S. military services. Arnold was also the founder of Project RAND, which evolved into one of the world's largest non-profit global policy think tanks, the RAND Corporation, and one of the founders of Pan American World Airways.
