Henry "Hap" Arnold learned to fly in 1911 at the Wright brothers' school in Dayton — one of the first handful of military aviators in an Army that then owned a single airplane. Thirty years later he commanded the largest air force ever assembled. As Chief of the Army Air Forces he drove its expansion from roughly 20,000 men in 1938 to nearly 2.5 million and some 80,000 aircraft, pressed the strategic-bombing campaigns over Germany and Japan, and championed the B-29 Superfortress. He remains the only American to wear five stars in two services — General of the Army, and later General of the Air Force.

The figure shows Arnold in service dress "pinks and greens" — an olive-drab tunic with pilot's wings, ribbons, and general's stars, taupe trousers and a peaked service cap bearing the winged-star badge — standing at ease with one hand on his hip. As the command anchor of a U.S.A.A.F. display he sits naturally alongside Lt. Col. James Doolittle and the airmen he built the force around: pair him with a Heavy Bomber Crewman and top ace Richard Bong for an airfield-inspection diorama spanning command, bomber, and fighter.

W. Britain model 10208. 1/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.