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Happy to See Hap YOUR SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER feature regarding General Hap Arnold and our country’s stubborn reluctance to recognize the power of aircraft in wartime certainly rang a bell with me. My brother Norton, an enlisted man in the U.S. Air Force, worked on assembling the top-secret Norden bombsight at Denver. I was a navigator in …
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