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=**CORRECT!!! HENRY "HAP" ARNOLD**=

General Henry "Hap" Arnold was the commander of the Army Air Force in World War II (during this war, the Air Force was part of the Army). He was responsible for the strategic bombing of Germany. He learned how to fly from the Wright Brothers and was a protege of General Billy Mitchell. He directed the expansion and growth of the Air Force into the most powerful in the world. Arnold's tenure saw the development of the intercontinental bomber, the jet fighter, the extensive use of radar, global airlift and atomic warfare as mainstays of modern air power.

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