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In January 1945, LeMay was transferred from China to relieve Brigadier General Haywood S. Hansell as commander of the XXI Bomber Command in the Marianas. [8] [10] Major General Curtis LeMay talking with General Joseph W. Stilwell. He became convinced that high-altitude precision bombing would be ineffective, given the usually cloudy weather ...
Bomber Command aircraft had not been designed for that kind of attack, and airframe fatigue increased. All Valiants were grounded in October 1964 and permanently withdrawn from service in January 1965. [60] Bomber Command's other main function was to provide tanker aircraft to the RAF. The Valiant was the first bomber used as a tanker ...
Major General Curtis E. LeMay (left), with his successor, Brigadier General Roger M. Ramey, shortly before LeMay’s departure to assume command of the XXI Bomber Command LeMay departed for the Marianas on 18 January 1945 to assume command of the XXI Bomber Command, leaving the XX Bomber Command in India in the hands of Brigadier General Roger ...
Bomber Command is an organisational military unit, generally subordinate to the air force of a country.The best known were in Britain and the United States.A Bomber Command is generally used for strategic bombing (although at times, e.g. during the Normandy Landings, may be used for tactical bombing), and is composed of bombers (i.e. planes used to bomb targets).
The twenty C-87s that the XX Bomber Command brought with it had been flown out by ATC pilots on 90 days' temporary duty. They were intended to be operated by pilots of the 308th Bombardment Group, but Major General George E. Stratemeyer, the CBI Air Forces commander, objected to this arrangement. Instead, the nineteen C-87s (one having been ...
The symptoms of the breakdown were not based on any real-life event, but instead were intended to portray the effects of intense stress experienced by many airmen. [6] Major General Pritchard was modeled on the VIII Bomber Command's first commander, Major General Ira C. Eaker. [7]
In August 1944, Major General Haywood S. Hansell, Jr was directed to take over command of the organization. [2] Serious planning for the movement of the XXI Bomber Command's B-29s from their Second Air Force training bases in Kansas to newly constructed combat airfields on Saipan, Tinian and Guam began in April 1944.
General (Honorary) Ira Clarence Eaker (April 13, 1896 [1] – August 6, 1987) was a general of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.Eaker, as second-in-command of the prospective Eighth Air Force, was sent to England to form and organize its bomber command.