Word: ghq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When, at the end of his tour as GHQ Air Force commander in 1939, he reverted to his regular rank of colonel and was shipped off to Texas, most people in the Army thought that he had been sent to Coventry for his persistence. Soon after Chief of Staff George C. Marshall assumed command of the Army, he spotted Andy Andrews for an over-all command. The record shows that Colonel Andrews was soon promoted to Brigadier General once more, assigned to the General Stafr in charge of G-3 (operations & training) for the expanding Army. That experience stands...
First step of the Army was to reorganize the GHQ Air Force, fighting arm of the Air Corps, into four air districts called Air Forces. The First Air Force covers the Northeast, most vulnerable quarter of the country, the Second the Northwest. The Third has the Southeast, the Fourth the Southwest...
...approach of enemy aircraft. Pattern for what civilians could do was set last winter when General Chaney of the First Air Force tested a vast civilian warning net. Few weeks ago the four Air Force commanders got together with Major General Delos C. Emmons, commander of the GHQ Air Force, to study General Chaney's experiment. This week the Army announced that civilian warning systems would be set up in all the Air Force districts...
...Numbered above 500 to designate it as a GHQ organization, as opposed to divisional, corps and Army troops...
Since 1939, the GHQ Air Force has been under the direct command of the Chief of Air Corps. Last week George Marshall changed that setup too. To the Chief of Air Corps (a post now temporarily filled by Major General George H. Brett) were left the jobs of training, procurement, research, etc. As field commander of U. S. armies, George Marshall put Delos Emmons' fighting unit directly under his own command. Farseeing military fliers thought they could see another day, when an Air officer might command an army, might even be Chief of Staff...