American Airpower Comes of Age: General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's World War II Diaries, Volume 1DIANE Publishing |
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Page 259 - There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Page 510 - Your primary object will be the progressive destruction and dislocation of the German military, industrial, and economic system, and the undermining of the morale of the German people to a point •where their capacity for armed resistance is fatally weakened.
Page 123 - Henry L. Stimson and McGeorge Bundy, On Active Service in Peace and War (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1948); while the strongly anti-Stimson view taken by Richard N.
Page 429 - Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol.
Page 183 - Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948), p.
Page 15 - In all of this Army there is but one thing which is causing me real anxiety. And that is the Air Service. In it there are a lot of good men, but they are running around in circles. Somebody has got to make them go straight. I want you to do the job.
Page 213 - Stimson complained in his diary about those people who were 'just hellbent to satisfy a passing impulse or emotion to help out some other nation that is fighting on our side' and who had 'no responsibility over whether or not our own army and our own forces are going to be left unarmed or not.
Page 234 - Force all asking for what each wanted — 100% — with no funnel or central sieve to coordinate the various demands. They did not appreciate that on top of this load we had to take care of the needs of China, Russia, British Colonies, Dutch East Indies. Then we also had to make such military dispositions as to insure that Japan would think before acting in Far East. The British as usual asked for everything they wanted regardless of whether we have or ever will have an Air Force. They never blinked...
Page 286 - The mission of the Army Air Forces is to procure and maintain equipment peculiar to the Army Air Forces, and to provide air force units properly organized, trained, and equipped for combat operations.
Page 358 - AB strategy that only the minimum of force necessary for the safeguarding of vital interests in other theatres should be diverted from operations against Germany.
References to this book
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization Nicholson Baker Limited preview - 2008 |