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7 unusual facts about Henry H. Arnold|


Bell P-59 Airacomet

Major General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold became aware of the United Kingdom's jet program when he attended a demonstration of the Gloster E.28/39 in April 1941.

Hughes XF-11

On the urgent recommendation of Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, who led a team surveying several reconnaissance aircraft proposals in September 1943, General Henry "Hap" Arnold, chief of the U.S. Army Air Forces, ordered 100 F-11s for delivery beginning in 1944.

Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star

After receiving documents and blueprints comprising years of British jet aircraft research, the commanding General of the Army Air Forces, Henry H. Arnold, believed an airframe could be developed to accept the British-made jet engine, and the Materiel Command's Wright Field research and development division tasked Lockheed to design the aircraft.

Obsolete badges of the United States military

A unique obsolete badge situation occurred with General of the Air Force Henry H. Arnold, who in 1913 was among the 24 Army pilots to receive the first Military Aviator badge, an eagle bearing Signal Corps flags suspended from a bar.

Silverplate

This would have required much less modification, but Major General Leslie R. Groves, Jr., the director of the Manhattan Project, and General Henry H. Arnold, the Chief of United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), wished to use an American plane, if this was at all possible.

United States Air Force Symbol

The new Air Force symbol is based on the familiar World War II "Hap" Arnold wings and represents the service's heritage.

Wiesbaden High School

In 1949–50, the school was named General H.H. Arnold High School after Henry H. Arnold General of the Army and General of the Air Force during and immediately after World War II.


1880 in the United States

February 14 – Samuel G. Arnold, United States Senator from Rhode Island from 1862 till 1863.

Bingham County, Idaho

Bingham County was created January 13, 1885, and named after Henry H. Bingham, a congressman from Pennsylvania and friend of William Bunn, Idaho's Territorial Governor.

Campaign furniture

In 1903, the Secretary of State for War, H. O. Arnold-Forster said that "The British Army is a social institution prepared for every emergency except that of war."

Century Pharmaceuticals

Century modified Dr. Henry Dakin's original formula, making it stable for 12+ months.

Christian Jensen Lofthuus

Barton, H. Arnold (1986) Scandinavia in the Revolutionary era, 1760-1815 (University of Minnesota Press) ISBN 978-0-8166-1393-9

Consumers Cooperative Services

It was founded in 1920 by a group of socially minded women, among them Mary E. Arnold, Mabel Reed, Dorothy Kenyon, Mary LaDame and Ruth True.

Francena H. Arnold

Francena Harriet Long was born Sept. 9, 1888, on a farm near Literberry, Illinois, to James Harvey Long and Hannah Cox Long.

H. O. Arnold-Forster

After Cox's death, he married Ruth Mallory, widow of George Mallory the mountaineer.

Henry Bingham

Henry H. Bingham (1841–1912), US Brigadier General, Medal of Honor recipient

Henry Bliss

Henry H. Bliss (1830–1899), first person killed by an automobile in the US

Henry Crocker

Henry H. Crocker (1839–1913), Union Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient

Henry H. Bauer

In his book, Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy, Henry Bauer criticizes the research of Immanuel Velikovsky, author of the pseudoscientific and pseudohistoric New York Times bestseller Worlds in Collision (1950).

Bauer developed an interest in the Loch Ness Monster and based his belief in the Monster's existence on a film made by prominent “Nessie” enthusiast Tim Dinsdale.

Henry H. Carter

For most of his professional life he was interested in the translation of 12th- and 13th-century manuscripts, written by monks, about the stories of Joseph of Arimathea and the Holy Grail, and the legend of El Cid.

Henry H. Mauz, Jr.

His foreign awards include the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, the Canadian Meritorious Service Cross, and the French Ordre National du Mérite.

Henry H. Ross

Ross was elected as an Adams man to the 19th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1827.

Henry H. Spalding

He graduated from Western Reserve College in 1833, and entered Lane Theological Seminary in the class of 1837.

Henry H. Whaley

They obtained government contracts in Washington, D.C., where he lived for a time, and the nearby government depot at Harpers Ferry.

Henry Houston

Henry H. Houston (1820–1895), Philadelphia businessman and philanthropist

Hypnogaja

The group is composed of vocalist Jason "ShyBoy" Arnold, keyboardist Mark Nubar Donikian, drummer Adrian Barnardo and guitarists Bryan Farrar and Abe Parker.

James R. Arnold

He was married to Louise Arnold for 60 years, and had three sons, Bob, Ted, and Ken.

Laurence F. Arnold

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress and for election in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress.

LOCAD

The S6 Truss was swabbed in space on flight day 5, March 19, 2009, during the first spacewalk by Steve Swanson (EV1) and Richard R. Arnold (EV2).

Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs

While the response to both editions of the book has been generally favorable, it remains controversial among some Burroughs aficionados, particularly for Lupoff's argument that the Barsoom series was heavily influenced by Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (1905) and The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician (1890) by Edwin L. Arnold.

Matching funds

For example, Dr. Booker T. Washington, a famous African-American educator, had a long-time friendship with millionaire industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers who provided him with substantial amounts of money to be applied for the betterment and education of black Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Morris S. Arnold

Arnold gained the support not only of outgoing Governor White but sitting U.S. Representatives John Paul Hammerschmidt and Edwin Bethune.

At any rate, Pollan and other Republicans hoped that Arnold could bridge the gulf in the party between the former Rockefeller backers, such as herself, and the more active Reagan people, such as White and former gubernatorial candidate Ken Coon.

R v. Fellows; R v. Arnold

R v. Fellows; R v. Arnold 1997 1 Cr App R 244; 1997 2 All E.R. 548, is a prominent English case on the statutory interpretation of section 1 of the Protection of Children Act 1978, and the Obscene Publications Act 1959, the definitions have since been amended by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.

Richard S. Arnold

Arnold was beaten again in the 1972 congressional primary by then Attorney General Ray Thornton, of Sheridan in Grant County.

Barely a year later, on December 19, 1979, Carter named Arnold to a new position on the appeals court headquartered in St. Louis—a seat to which he previously had very publicly considered nominating law school professor Joan Krauskopf but eventually opted not to proceed with because of Krauskopf's "not qualified" rating from the American Bar Association.

Scientific Advisory Group

The Scientific Advisory Group of the United States Air Force, later renamed the Scientific Advisory Board, was established in 1944, when General Henry H. Arnold asked Dr. Theodore von Kármán to establish a group of scientists to review the techniques and research trends in aeronautics.

Stuart Hall High School

Henry H. Neff, Author of The Tapestry children's books series.

Swinnerton Ledge

In association with the names of geologists grouped in this area, named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Henry H. Swinnerton (1876–1966), British zoologist and paleontologist, Professor of Geology, University college of Nottingham (later Nottingham University), 1912–46; President, Geological Society, 1938-40.

The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy

In the American novel The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the rich man Tom Buchanan says that "civilization's going to pieces", based upon his reading of The Rise of the Coloured Empires, by "this man Goddard"; allusions to Lothrop Stoddard's book of scientific racism, and to Henry H. Goddard, a prominent American psychologist and eugenicist.

Thomas D. Milling

Milling reported to the 15th Cavalry at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in September 1909 but his tour of duty was cut short when War Department Special Order 95, dated April 21, 1911, assigned Milling and 2d Lt. Henry H. Arnold to "aeronautical duty with the Signal Corps," and instructed them to "proceed to Dayton, Ohio, for the purpose of undergoing a course of instruction in operating the Wright airplane."

Thomas J. Arnold

After the death of her husband, Elizabeth took the children back to England and Rugby for their initial education and then moved to Hiram, Ohio, where her children went to college.

Walter E. Hussman, Sr.

Gale Arnold is the divorced first wife of United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Judge Richard S. Arnold.

William Nelson Page

Page often worked as a manager for absentee owners, such as the British geological expert, Dr. David T. Ansted, and the New York City mayor, Abram S. Hewitt of the Cooper-Hewitt organization and other New York and Boston financiers, or as the “front man” in projects involving a silent partner, such as Henry H. Rogers.

Worship of angels

In 1996 Clinton E. Arnold, based on Sheppard's inscription, advanced the theory of a pagan, not Jewish, background to Colossians 2:8-23.

Zygolophodon

While collecting fossils in the Clarno Formation of Oregon during 1941, noted paleobotanists Alonzo W. Hancock and Chester A. Arnold recovered the most complete Zygolophodon skull known at the time.


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