Frank Armstrong
Military | Lieutenant General | Commanding Officer; Pilot | 306th Bomb Group The Reich Wreckers
Commanded 97th BG from 31 July 1942 to 27 September 1942.
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Harris B Hull
Military
Hull was one of 6 Staff Officers to accompany General Eaker to England in February 1942.
He served in both the Eighth Air Force and the Mediterranean theater as a combat intelligence officer during the Second World War and was promoted through the ranks to colonel. In June 1944 he was transferred to the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces in Italy. In June 1944 he was a member of the initial mission of the Fifteenth Air Force to Russia.
Service
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Peter Beasley
Military | Colonel | Chief of Supply
Beasley was one of 6 staff officers to accompany General Eaker to England in February 1942. He was commissioned into the military after working as an executive of Lockheed Aircraft Company. ... -
Frederick Castle
Military | Brigadier General | Commanding Officer; Air Leader, Pilot | 487th Bomb Group
Commanding Officer of 94th Bomb Group at Bury St. Edmunds from 19-Jun-43 to 16-Apr-44. Overseas with General Eaker's staff to organize 8th AF, February 1942. ... -
William Cowart
Military | Major | B-24 Command Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
On March 8, 1943, the B-24D, named, Thar She Blows, 41-23658, crash landed at Gibraltar Farms in Kent, U.K. The plane was returning from a mission to Rouen, France, with battle damage. The pilot, Major William Cowart, Bombardier Thomas Dick, returned... -
William Cowart
Military | Colonel | Tactician
Cowart was one of 6 staff officers to accompany Eaker to England in February 1942. ... -
Ira Eaker
Military | Lieutenant General | Commanding General, 8th Air Force
Commanding General of 8th AF 1 December 1942 to 5 January 1944. Following that, Eaker was given command of all Allied air forces in the MTO, and in April 1945 became Deputy CG of the USAAF. Retired July 1947. ... -
Beirne Lay
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Group commander | 100th Bomb Group
Beirne Lay assumed command of the 487th Bomb Group at Alamogordo Army Air Base, New Mexico on February 28, 1944, his wife was Philippa Ludwell Lee. ...
Units served with
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Headquarters (Eighth Air Force)
Headquarters
8th Air Force Headquarters opened in London under the command of General Carl A Spaatz on 19 June 1942. It oversaw all Commands, Wings and Groups engaged in the Strategic Bombing Campaign until February 1944, when it became US Strategic Air Forces in...
Associated Place
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Hendon
Military site : airfield
An RAF station which in 1944 was home to Douglas C-47 Skytrain lodgers.
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Williamsburg, Iowa | 23 May 1909 |
| Arrived in UK | Hendon | 20 February 1942 |
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Arrived in UK with General Eaker |
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| Died | 29 January 1993 | |
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| 02 December 2019 10:38:08 | Emily | Created entry with surname, middlename, firstname, nationality, highest rank, role, biography, events, person associations, unit associations and place associations |
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