While U.S. and British newsmen were roundly criticizing U.S. military aircraft in the first eight months after Pearl Harbor (on the basis of their spotty combat showing) most U.S. air soldiers had a stock and sour reply: "Wait and see." Only constitutionally cheerful "Hap" Arnold, chief of the Air Forces, had much good to say about U.S. warplanes in public. This week he had his inning.
Results from the only true testbattlewere in, and had been tabulated. Daily revised, the report lay every morning on General Arnold's desk. It was the first...
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