Gen. Carl A. “Tooey” Spaatz is designated Commanding General of U.S. Army Air Forces, succeeding Gen. Henry H. “Hap” Arnold. Spaatz would go on to become the first Chief of Staff of the Air Force when it became an independent service.
A new Navy missile could fill a long-range air-to-air need for the U.S. Air Force’s fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-generation fighters. The Navy’s portfolio acquisition executive for munitions posted information on the AIM-424 Long Range Air-to-Air Missile online on Aug. 22, the same day it unveiled the project at the service’s…