Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chennault, whose tactical genius had already set a mark for other air commanders to shoot at, was recalled to active duty with the U.S. Army, given command of the Fourteenth Air Force, with permission to continue his activities as an adviser to the Chinese Government...
Chennault's resignation came on the heels of a China air force shakeup. Two days before, Lieut. General George E. Stratemeyer, former chief of the Eastern Air Command in India, had been named commanding general of all U.S. air forces in China. Under him would be both the Fourteenth and the Tenth Airmen suspected that that was the real reason for Claire Chennault's resignation: he could conclude that his superiors regarded him as good enough to build up the China air force and to fight in it in the lean days but not good enough to command...
...more steps were taken last week to unravel the Pacific command situation. Army air forces on Okinawa and other Ryukyu bases were transferred from the command of Admiral Nimitz to General MacArthur...
...Kenney's command under MacArthur will include three air forces: the Fifth, commanded by stocky, sallow Lieut. General Ennis C. Whitehead, which fought its way up through Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines; the Thirteenth, now commanded by a smart, 38-year-old pilot, Major General Paul B. Wurtsmith, which started in the Solomons, shifted to New Guinea, recently covered the Australian landings on Borneo; and the Seventh, veteran Central Pacific outfit which started in Hawaii and worked its way westward to Okinawa. The Seventh's commander: Brigadier General Thomas D. White...
This partially solved jigsaw puzzle still left out some stray pieces: the Army's Seventh Fighter Command, a part of the Seventh Air Force, is based mostly on Iwo Jima and under Navy command. It escorts not MacArthur's nor Nimitz' planes over Japan, but Spaatz...