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Brother\u00a0Henry Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n June 25th 1886\u00a0\u2013 January 15th 1950<\/p>\n American general officer holding the grades of General of the Army and General of the Air Force. Arnold was an aviation pioneer, Chief of the Air Corps (1938\u20131941), Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces, the only U.S. Air Force general to hold five-star rank, and the only officer to hold a five-star rank in two different U.S. military services. Arnold was also the founder of Project RAND, which evolved into one of the world’s largest non-profit global policy think tanks, the RAND Corporation<\/a>, and one of the founders of Pan American World Airways<\/a>.<\/p>\n Instructed in flying by the Wright Brothers, Arnold was one of the first military pilots worldwide, and one of the first three rated pilots in the history of the United States Air Force. He overcame a fear of flying that resulted from his experiences with early flight, supervised the expansion of the Air Service during World War I, and became a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Gen. Billy Mitchell.<\/p>\n Arnold rose to command the Army Air Forces immediately prior to American entry into World War II and directed its hundred-fold expansion from an organization of little more than 20,000 men and 800 first-line combat aircraft into the largest and most powerful air force in the world. An advocate of technological research and development, his 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.<\/p>\n Arnold’s most widely used nickname, “Hap,” was short for “Happy,” attributed variously to work associates when he moonlighted as a silent film stunt pilot in October 1911.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” _builder_version=”3.0.50″ src=”https:\/\/eb1870.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Famous-Freemason-Hap-Arnold.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” always_center_on_mobile=”on” border_style=”solid” force_fullwidth=”off” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brother\u00a0Henry Arnold June 25th 1886\u00a0\u2013 January 15th 1950 American general officer holding the grades of General of the Army and General of the Air Force. Arnold was an aviation pioneer, Chief of the Air Corps (1938\u20131941), Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces, the only U.S. Air Force general to hold five-star rank, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[40],"project_tag":[145,133,94,146,144],"class_list":["post-4881","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-military-and-law-enforcement","project_tag-air-force","project_tag-ezekiel-bates-lodge","project_tag-famous-freemason","project_tag-general-arnold","project_tag-hap-arnold"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/4881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/4881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4883,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/4881\/revisions\/4883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}