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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Gen. Hap Arnold
From: amr3 at uwmalumni.com (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 01:23:05 -0500

Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 16:15:23 -0500
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
To: "LUG at Leica-Users.org" <lug at leica-users.org>, Olympus Camera
        Discussion <olympus at thomasclausen.net>
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Gen. Hap Arnold
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>General Hap Arnold, along with Dr. Theodore von Karman and a few others,
>were responsible for the creation of Arnold Engineering Development
>Center, to get the United States capable of performing state of the art
>aeronautical and engine research.  A few years ago I received an award
>plaque that contained a caricature of Gen. Arnold by noted cartoonist
>Milton Caniff.  I have always thought of it as a beautiful example of
>his work.  Perhaps a few of you are old enough to recall his "Terry and
>the Pirates" and "Steve Canyon" comic strips.

>http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Hap+Arnold-1.JPG.html
<http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Hap+Arnold-1.JPG.html>

>Jim Nichols
>Tullahoma, TN USA
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Caniff also did the "Male Call" strip for armed forces publications in WWII.

-- 
Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
amr3 at uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
 for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt


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