Word: ghq
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief advantage of the GHQ Air Force will be greater mobility and striking power. The Force will be divided into three "wings"-Atlantic Wing, with headquarters at Langley Field, Va.; Pacific Wing, at Hamilton Field, Calif., and Southern Wing, at Fort Crockett, Tex. (later to be moved to Barksdale Field, La.). A highly centralized combat unit of nearly 1,000 planes, the GHQ Air Force was officially regarded last week as the greatest move since the War in the modernization of U. S. military forces...
...direct command of GHQ Air Force will be a hitherto obscure field officer named Frank Maxwell Andrews. Not since Roosevelt I jacked John Joseph Pershing from captain to brigadier-general in 1906 had the Army seen so notable a promotion as that which promised last week to elevate Frank Andrews from lieutenant-colonel to brigadier-general. A onetime cavalryman, Col. Andrews is tough, fiftyish, handsome. Army wives call him the best-looking man in service, like to remember the romantic thrill he gave them in 1914 by taking his bride on a horseback honeymoon in Virginia...
...last week announced organization of a General Headquarters Air Force-an air-mada of 1,000 bombing, pursuit and attack planes in five wings, concentrated on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and in the Middle West. Recommended in the Baker Committee report on Army aviation (TIME, July 30), the GHQ Air Force will virtually constitute a separate Air Corps-a fighting unit distinct from the observation groups which function directly with ground troops in tactical operations...
...Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois, Chief of Air Corps, from command of practically the entire combat air force, restricting his command in future to personnel training and aircraft procurement. Directly in control of the new combat force will be General Douglas MacArthur, Army Chief of Staff. Actual command of the GHQ Air Force probably will go to Brigadier General Charles H. Danforth of Langley Field, onetime Assistant Chief of Air Corps, who was expected to be upped in rank to major-general...