The friend was Brig. Gen. Eugene H. BeebeArchived August 16, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, who had returned to Washington to become caretaker commander of the new Continental Air Forces. Beebe's first assignment as a newly-minted lieutenant and aviator was under Arnold with the 16th Observation Squadron at Fort Riley in 1929. Arnold had been Beebe's mentor since 1932 when the lieutenant was assigned to the 31st Bomb Squadron at March Field, often flying together and using Beebe as a junior officer on the 1st Wing staff. In October 1938 when he was named chief of the Air Corps, Arnold was told he could no longer fly himself and chose Captain Beebe as his personal pilot, a position Beebe held for the next four years, rising to colonel. In the summer of 1942, recalling his own disappointment at never serving overseas in World War I, Arnold approved Beebe's request for combat duty, which resulted in command of the 308th Bomb Group, a B-24 unit Beebe trained and led in China with the Fourteenth Air Force.
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The conference also saw one of the first instances of Arnold's legendary propensity to relieve from command a subordinate who displeased him. The newly appointed commander of the Newfoundland Base Command, Brigadier General Henry W. "Swede" Harms, so irritated Arnold with petty complaints and excuses that Arnold had him relieved of command, reduced to his permanent grade of colonel, and sent to Pendleton AAF, Oregon, an Air Service Command base, where he became base commander. Harms had been the Army's 37th pilot and an airman since 1915, and the relief spelled the end of his career. He passed through a series of "backwater" billets, the last of which was command of the 21st Bombardment Wing in Kansas, a personnel processing organization that had become a dumping ground for out-of-favor senior officers, before dying in June 1945 at the age of 57. (Huston 2002, p. 257 note 69) Huston, John W. (2002). "Biography". In Huston, John W. (ed.). American Airpower Comes of Age: General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's World War II Diaries. Air University Press. ISBN1-58566-093-0. Retrieved May 26, 2021. Huston's introductory biography is 108 pages in length, and is a detailed account of Arnold's life, both professional and personal, to 1941.
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The friend was Brig. Gen. Eugene H. BeebeArchived August 16, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, who had returned to Washington to become caretaker commander of the new Continental Air Forces. Beebe's first assignment as a newly-minted lieutenant and aviator was under Arnold with the 16th Observation Squadron at Fort Riley in 1929. Arnold had been Beebe's mentor since 1932 when the lieutenant was assigned to the 31st Bomb Squadron at March Field, often flying together and using Beebe as a junior officer on the 1st Wing staff. In October 1938 when he was named chief of the Air Corps, Arnold was told he could no longer fly himself and chose Captain Beebe as his personal pilot, a position Beebe held for the next four years, rising to colonel. In the summer of 1942, recalling his own disappointment at never serving overseas in World War I, Arnold approved Beebe's request for combat duty, which resulted in command of the 308th Bomb Group, a B-24 unit Beebe trained and led in China with the Fourteenth Air Force.
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Daso 2013. ——— (2013). "Arnold's Evolution". Air Force Magazine. Vol. 96, no. 9. Archived from the original on June 26, 2018. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
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