* General Hap Arnold: an aviation pioneer and commander of the United States Army Air Corps ( from 1938 ), commander of the U. S. Army Air Forces ( from 1941 until 1945 ) and the first General of the Air Force ( in 1949 ).

Other composers who have led the orchestra include Ernst von Dohnányi in 1927, Ottorino Respighi in 1929, Arnold Schoenberg in 1945, Darius Milhaud in 1949, Manuel Rosenthal in 1950, Leon Kirchner in 1960, Jean Martinon in 1970 and Howard Hanson.

Arnold Aronson was executive director from 1945 to 1976.

In March 1945, he returned to Italy for an observation tour with General of the Army Henry H. " Hap " Arnold.

Between 1943 and 1945 Arnold experienced four heart attacks severe enough to require hospitalization.

Arnold was returning by C-54 from Italy to Miami for a checkup when he received the news of the German surrender on May 7, 1945.

Also in 1945, the Düsseldorf chapter of the united workers union was founded, presided by Arnold.

In March 1945, at Madison Square Garden, Graziano scored one of the major upsets in boxing over the phenom Billy Arnold.

Twentieth Air Force commander and AAF Commanding General Henry H. Arnold grew impatient with a lack of discernible results, and replaced General Haywood S. Hansell with General Curtis LeMay as commander of XXI Bomber Command on January 21, 1945.

Gustav Schwarzenegger, the father of Arnold Schwarzenegger, married war widow Aurelia Jadrny ( July 29, 1922 – August 2, 1998 ) on October 5, 1945, in Mürzsteg, Steiermark, Austria.

* P. M. H. Bell, The World Since 1945, London, Arnold, 2001, pp. 89

Following threats of resignation and pressure from “ very high topside ,” in January 1945 General Arnold ordered General Carl Spaatz in England to appoint Elliott a rated pilot, and the president submitted his son ’ s name to the Senate for promotion to Brigadier General.

It was founded as Hardware Wholesalers, Inc ( HWI ) in 1945 in Fort Wayne, Indiana by Arnold H. Gerberding along with 75 dealers who would become members and invest $ 1, 000 in exchange for shares of stock in the company.

Captain Arnold J. Isbell, USN ( September 22, 1899 – March 19, 1945 ) was a United States Navy officer and Naval Aviator who was killed near the end of World War II.

Among her other 1940s hits were " Triflin ' Gal " ( top-10 records for both Al Dexter and Walter Shrum, 1945 ); " Warm Red Wine " ( Ernest Tubb, 1949 ), and " Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me " ( Eddy Arnold, 1950 ).

She feuded with her daughter, who publicly " divorced " her in 1945, and with her former son-in-law, Drew Pearson, by whom she had a granddaughter, Ellen Cameron Pearson Arnold ( July 27, 1926-September 10, 2010 ).

** Arnold C. Ræstad ( head of the London branch 1940 – 1945 )

) Readings in English Literature: From Chaucer to Matthew Arnold ( 1945 )

* Isle of the Dead ( 1945 ), suggested by the two paintings with that name by Arnold Boecklin

* William Richard Arnold ( 1945 – 1965 )

Arnold Taylor ( 15 July 1945 – 22 November 1981 ) was a South African boxer who became the WBA Bantamweight champion in 1973.

The opening was introduced by Mikhail Botvinnik in the 1945 USSR vs USA radio match vs Arnold Denker.

In less than a month, the whole province of Bohol was officially declared liberated on May 25, 1945, by Major General William H. Arnold, Commander of the American Division.

Arnold Kanter ( February 27, 1945 – April 10, 2010 ) served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 1991 to 1993.

The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), directed by Billy Wilder, yet another Vienna-born, Berlin-trained American auteur, tells the story of an alcoholic in a manner evocative of neorealism.

In 1945, while at PRC, he directed one of the all-time noir cult classics, Detour.

In France during the war the tour de force Children of Paradise directed by Marcel Carné ( 1945 ), was shot in Nazi occupied Paris.

Roma, città aperta directed by Roberto Rossellini ( 1945 ), Sciuscià directed by Vittorio De Sica ( 1946 ), Paisà directed by Roberto Rossellini ( 1946 ), La terra trema directed by Luchino Visconti ( 1948 ), The Bicycle Thief directed by Vittorio De Sica ( 1948 ), and Bitter Rice directed by Giuseppe De Santis ( 1949 ), are some well-known examples.

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail ( 1945 ), and the post-war Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), and Stray Dog ( 1949 ), directed by Akira Kurosawa are considered important early works leading to his first masterpieces of the 1950s.

In 1945 two shorts he directed, Hitler Lives?

In World War II, from 1942 to 1945, Mulliken directed the Information Office for the University of Chicago's Plutonium project.

The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk and the screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on the 1945 novel The Brick Foxhole by screenwriter and director Richard Brooks.

The Lost Weekend is a 1945 Academy Award winning American drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman.

He first directed two short films, but his first feature film was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ( 1945 ), one his first attempts to film dramas focused on contemporary concerns, which became his forte.

* La P ' tite femme du Moulin Rouge ( 1945 ), directed by Benito Perojo-with Alberto Bello, Héctor Calcaño, Homero Cárpena, Tilda Thamar

After the war, he re-entered the University of Florence to continue his studies, but when he saw Henry V in 1945, he directed his attention toward theatre instead.

The audience participation show Let Yourself Go ( 1944 – 1945 ) could best be described as slapstick radio with studio audience members acting out long suppressed urges ( often directed at host Berle ).

In 1945, Félix filmed Vértigo, directed by Antonio Momplet.

It's a Wonderful Life is an American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, that was based on the short story " The Greatest Gift ", written by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1939, and privately published by the author in 1945.

Between 1942 and 1945, Wyler, who became a United States citizen in 1928, served as a major in the United States Army Air Forces and directed two documentaries: The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress ( 1944 ), the story of a Boeing B-17 and its U. S. Army Air Force crew, and Thunderbolt!

* A Diary for Timothy ( 1945 ) ( directed by Humphrey Jennings, spoken by Michael Redgrave )

In 1945, the Italian petrol company Agip, directed by Enrico Mattei, started extracting methane from its fields, and Lodi was the first Italian town with a regular domestic gas service.

Precise figures are not available, but the fire-bombing campaign against Japan, directed by LeMay between March 1945 and the Japanese surrender in August 1945, may have killed more than 500, 000 Japanese civilians and left five million homeless.