Hap Arnold Quotes
There is no time for normal General Staff procedure. Speed is essential and your efforts should be informal.
The United States at the time was overly weak in military preparedness. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had authorized the rapid building and deployment of 10,000 airplanes. Arnold cut through all the bureaucracy and red tape.
Hap Arnold, 1886-1950, Army General in Charge of U. S. Air Forces, Statement to his staff, November 1938
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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.