MILITARY PERSONNEL

Henry H. Arnold

1886 - 1950

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Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (25 June 1886 – 15 January 1950) was an American general officer holding the ranks of General of the Army and later, General of the Air Force. Arnold was an aviation pioneer, Chief of the Air Corps (1938–1941), commanding general of the United States Army Air Forces, the only United States 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry H. Arnold has received more than 1,482,240 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Henry H. Arnold is the 802nd most popular military personnel (down from 777th in 2019), the 2,330th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,381st in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Henry H. Arnold ranks 802 out of 2,058. Before him are Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz, Helmuth von Pannwitz, Hasan Salama, Macrianus Major, Sergey Surovikin, and Georg Lindemann. After him are Paik Sun-yup, Kurt von Tippelskirch, Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, Aimable Pélissier, Yan Liang, and Felice Pasquale Baciocchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Henry H. Arnold ranks 79. Before him are Edward Bach, Ali Sami Yen, Henry King, Amédée Ozenfant, Victor McLaglen, and May Ziade. After him are Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia, Hitoshi Imamura, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Manuel Ponce, and Sholem Schwarzbard. Among people deceased in 1950, Henry H. Arnold ranks 59. Before him are Liane de Pougy, Rafael Sabatini, Alfred Korzybski, Alma Karlin, Agnes Smedley, and Kim Kyu-sik. After him are Walter Huston, Abraham Wald, Olaf Stapledon, Hantaro Nagaoka, John C. Woods, and Walter Eucken.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry H. Arnold ranks 2,330 out of 20,380. Before him are Martin Chalfie (1947), Kenny Loggins (1948), Don Taylor (1920), Philly Joe Jones (1923), Hank Aaron (1934), and John Adams (1947). After him are Clifford Odets (1906), Jim Hines (1946), Anne Sexton (1928), Walker Evans (1903), Irving Penn (1917), and Jerome Powell (1953).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Henry H. Arnold ranks 35. Before him are James Bowie (1796), Wild Bill Hickok (1837), George B. McClellan (1826), Doc Holliday (1851), Joseph E. Johnston (1807), and Frank Jack Fletcher (1885). After him are Alexander Haig (1924), David Farragut (1801), P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), Joseph Stilwell (1883), Matthew Ridgway (1895), and John C. Woods (1911).

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