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Robert Boyd Williams (November 9, 1901 – February 10, 1977) was a major general in the United States Army Air Forces and an eminent combat commander during World War II. . He personally led the B-17 raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories on 17 August 1943, the first large-scale deep penetration bombing raid on Germ
Robert H. Williams was born circa 1908 in Arbor Vitae, Wisconsin. In 1929, Williams graduated from Ohio State University and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. During the 1930s, he was stationed in Shanghai, China with the 4th Marine Regiment .
The earliest action for which a U.S. serviceman earned a World War II Medal of Honor was the attack on Pearl Harbor, for which 17 U.S. servicemen were awarded a Medal, although they did so "while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force" rather than "enemy" since the United States was neutral during the ...
Olins W. Williams March 9, 1945 Lee A. Burns March 11, 1945 Aversa, Italy, Mediterranean Theatre of World War II ** General L. Grant Italy, Mediterranean Theatre of World War II ** Herman Perry: March 15, 1945 Ledo, Assam, India: Robert L. Pearson March 17, 1945 Shepton Mallet, United Kingdom, European Theater ** Cubia (Parson) Jones Henry Baker
Robert Franklin Williams was born in Monroe, North Carolina, on February 26, 1925, to Emma Carter and John L. Williams who worked as a railroad boiler washer. [2] [3] He had two sisters, Lorraine Garlington and Jessie Link, and two brothers, John H. Williams and Edward S. Williams. [3]
List of Tuskegee Airmen contains the names of notable Tuskegee Airmen, who were a group of primarily African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber) and airmen who fought in World War II. The name also applies to the navigators, bombardiers, mechanics, instructors, crew chiefs, nurses, cooks and other support personnel. [2]
Robert B. Williams (general) (1901–1977), World War II major general in the United States Army Air Forces Robert H. Williams (soldier) (1908–1983), American Marine brigadier general Politics
World War II was a global military conflict, the joining of what had initially been two separate conflicts. The first began in Asia in July 1937 as the Second Sino-Japanese War ; the other began in Europe in September 1939 with the German and Soviet invasion of Poland . [ 1 ]