After two months of ostensibly poor results, but mostly because he resisted a campaign of firebombing attacks against Japanese population centers favored by Arnold and his chief of staff, Lauris Norstad, Arnold decided he too needed replacing.
Brigadni general Haywood S. Hansell, eden od arhitektov načrtov AWPD/1 in AWPD/42, pa se je srečeval še z večjimi poveljniškimi problemi kot Wolfe ali LeMay.