For the 2,000,000 men in the Army Air Forces, now larger than the U.S. Navy, training expansion is nearly over, fighting expansion dead ahead. Last week A.A.F. General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold underlined this fact by recasting part of his command.
> Major General William E. Kepner took over the Eighth Air Force (England) Fighter Command. His predecessor, Brigadier General Frank O'D. ("Monk") Hunter, was boosted to deputy commander of the Eighth. Short, broad-chested, Bill Kepner won a Distinguished Service Cross for capturing a German machine gun singlehanded in World War I. In...
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