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ARNOLD, Henry H. "Hap". Global Mission. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949 A remarkable Anglo-American air-power association copy, inscribed by General of the Air Force Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold to Marshal of the Royal Air Force Viscount Portal of Hungerford, from Portal's private collection. Arnold, nicknamed "Hap" and also known to colleagues as "The Chief", was taught to fly by the Wright brothers, became one of America's earliest military aviators, and rose to command the United States Army Air Forces in the Second World War. Under him the American air arm expanded into the largest air force yet seen, with Arnold directing strategic bombing, the B-29 programme, and the Twentieth Air Force operations against Japan. He was later the only U.S. Air Force officer to hold five-star rank as General of the Air Force. First edition, first impression. Original black cloth, gilt spine label, in the original pictorial dust jacket priced $5.00. The recipient, Lord Portal, was Arnold's British counterpart as Chief of the Air Staff from 1940 to 1945. Their link was central to Allied bombing policy: after Casablanca, Portal coordinated the British and American bomber forces in the Combined Bomber Offensive, while Arnold drove the USAAF's daylight strategic bombing campaign. Arnold's postwar vision also reached into the atomic age: he helped found Project RAND to study long-range future warfare, while Portal became Controller of Production, Atomic Energy, at Britain's Ministry of Supply. Arnold's own memoir of air power, presented to the British air chief with whom he helped shape Allied strategy. Full transcription "I hope that you find this book of interest. H H Arnold El Rancho Feliz Calif."
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