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Sixteenth Air Force (16 AF)'s original ancestor was the Joint United States Military Group, Air Administration (Spain), which was established on 20 May 1954. It was attached to the Joint U.S. Military Group, which oversaw implementation of the 1953 Spanish-American Defense Cooperation Agreement.
Chief of Staff to Major General Carl Spaatz, commander of the Eighth Air Force [36] [37] Claudius Miller Easley: United States Army 19 June 1945 Hostile fire (small arms) Okinawa, Japan Assistant Commanding General, 96th Infantry Division [4] [5] [38] Nathan Bedford Forrest III: United States Army Air Forces 13 June 1943 Hostile fire (anti ...
Timothy Joseph Maude (November 18, 1947 – September 11, 2001) was a United States Army lieutenant general who was killed in the September 11 attacks at the Pentagon.. Maude was the highest ranking U.S. military officer killed in the September 11 attacks and the most senior United States Army officer killed by foreign action since the death of Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. on ...
In addition to dissolving both Army General Headquarters and the chiefs of the combat arms, and assigning their training functions to the Army Ground Forces, War Department Circular 59 reorganized the Army Air Forces, disbanding both Air Force Combat Command and the Office of Chief of the Air Corps (OCAC), eliminating all its training and ...
Gensui of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, mastermind of the Attack on Pearl Harbor. 1943-04-18 Bougainville Island Territory of New Guinea Japan: Plane shot down. Part of Operation Vengeance. [1] Viet Cong operatives Various. 1966–1972 Various South Vietnam: North Vietnam: Torture murder. Part of Phoenix ...
Michael Edward Ryan [1] (born December 24, 1941) is a retired United States Air Force general and was the 16th Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from October 1997 to September 2001. He served as the senior uniformed Air Force officer responsible for the organization, training and equipage of 700,000 active-duty, Guard, Reserve and ...
Lemnitzer at West Point as a Cadet in 1920. Lemnitzer was born on August 29, 1899, in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. [1] He graduated from Honesdale High School in 1917. He then entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, from which he graduated in 1920 with a commission as a second lieutenant in the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps.