Word: fechet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Panama, where Peace-Dove Lindbergh sprinkled goodwill three months ago, the War Department's two chief eagles-Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison and Major-General James E. Fechet, Chief of Army Air Corps-last month flew to inspect the Canal's defenses...
Nevertheless, Eagles Davison and Fechet recommended doubling Panama's air defenses. Perhaps to hasten the passage of appropriations, they abandoned their plan to fly home along Peace-Dove Lindbergh's route through the Antilles. They returned as they had gone down, in long hops of their Loening amphibians to Managua, Vera Cruz, Tampico, Brownsville, Washington...
From Brigadier General Fechet, Chief of the Army Air Service, who had also observed the test from the air, came not even a tight-lipped comment. He kept silent...
...Washington deposed Air Chief, now Colonel William E. Mitchell, entered the office of General Fechet, issued therefrom a broadside against those opposed to expansion of the Air Service. He characterized the test as a "kindergarten performance." ". . . The towing airplanes were trying to hit the muzzles of the guns with the targets. The next Congress will demand that all cards be laid on the table, to see what is vital to the defense of the nation. . . The air people will be just as aggressive in the next Congress as in the last. . . .We are now on the eve of an entire...
...Confirmed the nomination of Colonel James E. Fechet to succeed Brigadier General William Mitchell as assistant chief of the Army Air Service (with the title of Brigadier General...