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GLOBAL MISSION

BY

GENERAL H. H. ARNOLD

CHIEF OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES

1938 1946

With 34 Illustrations

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to the officers, men and women of the United States Air Force, 1907 1949, and to the men and women who follow them.

It is dedicated to all those, living and dead, whose efforts and sacrifices in the past forty years have built American Air Power into one of the determining facts in maintaining world peace today; to the first Military Aviators, to the men in the Jennies and De Havillands; to those who fought over Europe, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, Africa, Asia and Japan. It is for those who flew in the cold of the Arctic, the heat of the tropics and over the lonely stretches of the Pacific, and for those who helped them fly; for the workers in the factories and scientific laboratories, and those guarding the coasts of our own hemisphere.

It is especially dedicated to those American airmen and airwomen who gave their lives, in combat, in the line of duty in Occupied Germany and Japan, and on the unknown battlefields at home.

H. H. ARNOLD

General of the United States Air Force

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I want to express my thanks and sincere appreciation to my good friend William R. Laidlaw, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel, Eighth and Ninth Air Forces, for his great assistance during the writing of this book. For more than a year Bill Laidlaw has helped me wrestle with the countless problems presented by the compilation and editing of the vast material involved.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

I never even made Cadet Corporal. Plebe Arnold sitting second from instructor, Captain Kelly, 1903

Status report from Dayton

Also, the machine must have demountability; that is...to fit into an Army wagon when it had to be transported

College Park, Maryland, 1911. The only trouble was that Milling and I had both been trained in the left seat

Tommy Milling and me, eighteen years later.

Our first act was to take a large, clear photograph of the Wright and Curtiss planes and label, in ink, every section, part, nut, bolt and gadget on it

Coney Island, 1911. Myself, Grover Loening, Lieutenant T. G. (Spud) Ellyson, the Navys first pilot, and Tommy Milling

The War Department had stirred, if not quite awakened. Graham, me, Chandler, Beachey, Moore

1917. The Bug would certainly have caused consternation in the ranks of the German High Command at least

I could see a change in Billy Mitchell that summer....He seemed to brush aside the possibility that a lot of people might not understand.... (Pulitzer Races, 1920)

Rules or no rules, Billy had been out to sink that battleship. Ostfriesland starting the final plunge, 12.38 p.m., 21 July, 1921

The Chief visits San Diego. In background, note Pershings aide, Colonel (temp.) George C. Marshall

The Barling Bomber, 1923. Harris was one of the few who ever flew it

There was always a package of mail on President Coolidges desk...regardless. Patched holes from hailstorm in plane carrying the Presidents vacation mail from North Platte to Rapid City, 1927

Most of them were freak flights, depending on the determination and will-to-do of the flyer. The Question Mark (January, 1929) stayed in the air over Los Angeles, refuelling in flight, 150 hours, 40 minutes and 15 seconds. Sergeant Roy Hooe, Lieutenant Pete Quesada, Lieutenant Harry A. Halverson, Captain Ira C. Eaker, Major Carl Tooey Spaatz

Orville Wright and friends, Dayton, 1931. Howard Smith, me, Tooey Spaatz, Ben Foulois, Sneed and Pratt

Alaska flight, 1934....without incident, except the sinking of one B-10 in Cooks Bay, Anchorage, whence we were able to raise it from forty feet of water and continue it in operation

Just what the Navy command at Noumea thought of me, and why, I do not know. General Sandy Patch, myself, Admiral McCain

Casablanca Conference, January, 1943. Marshall, myself, Deane, Dykes, Wedemeyer, Ismay, Mountbatten, Pound, Brooke, Portal, Dill

Casablanca Conference, January, 1943. F.D.R. and U.S. advisers. Seated: General Marshall, the President, Admiral King. Standing: Harry Hopkins, myself, General Somervell, Averill Harriman

I surmised there was a bit of jealousy there. With Chennault, Stilwell, Dill and Bissell at Kunming, February, 1943

Frank Andrews at High Wycombe, just before the fatal crash. The Prime Minister, Frank, Bertie Harris, Tommy, Churchills aide, Mary Churchill, Ira Eaker and Commander Thompson

Once a week, prior to the formal conference with the experts, the Joint Chiefs lunched together in the Presentation Room of the Combined Chiefs of Staff Building. King, Marshall, Leahy, myself

With Harry Hopkins at game dinner given by me at Bolling Field, 28 October, 1943

Cairo Conference, 1943. Thanksgiving Dinner in Egypt. Seated: the Generalissimo, the President, the Prime Minister, Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Standing: next to the Chinese officers, Somervell, Stilwell, myself, Dill, Mountbatten, De Wiart.

Teheran Conference, November, 1943. Note R.A.F. uniform on Former Naval Person in foreground

With F.D.R. in Sicily, December, 1943

Talking it over with Ike; Castelvetrano airfield, Sicily, December, 1943

Patton was down in the mouth. Clark, myself, Patton, Sicily, December, 1943

Normandy beachhead, D plus 6. Bradley, too, was very appreciative of the part the Air had played

Three consecutive commanders of the U.S. Air Force. With Spaatz and Vandenberg, arriving at the Ninth Air Force base to present awards

Quebec Conference, September, 1944. General Marshall, Admiral Leahy, the President, Mr. Churchill, Sir Alan Brooke, Sir John Dill, General Joe Hollis, General Pug Ismay, Admiral King, Air Chief Marshal Portal, myself, Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham

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