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...Billy Kepner never liked school very much, so he ran away and joined the Marines at 16. Then he got in the Army, lost half his jaw and won a D.S.C. as a Third Division infantryman in World War I; joined the Air Corps after the war. In 1934 he plummeted from 60,613 feet in a stratosphere balloon, coolly waited for the bag to get low enough so that he could breathe when he parachuted. In World War II, Billy Kepner became chief of the Eighth Air Force Fighter Command. He is now deputy commander for air in Operations...
...Arnold led a bomber flight to Alaska. Jimmy Doolittle was the first man to fly across the U.S. in less than 24 hours. Major General William Kepner (the Eighth Air Force fighter commander) flew around in a stratosphere balloon. Spaatz himself commanded the famous endurance flight of the Fokker monoplane Question Mark. In his crew were Lieut. General Ira Eaker, now Allied air commander in the Mediterranean, and Brigadier General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, Ninth Air Force fighter commander in Britain...
Change by Range. But soon Major General William Kepner's Eighth Fighter Command radically changed bomber operations along the Britain-to-Germany airways. His seasoned combat pilots have made clannish bomber men welcome their fighter escorts. One of the best of the bomber's new friends is a silent, rosy-cheeked Group Commander, Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Cummings Jr., who was on Clark Field when the Japs attacked the Philippines, made his way to the Eighth by way of Corregidor, Java and Australia. In some five months, Cummings has led Thunderbolts over Bremen, Cologne, Emden...
...Major General William E. Kepner took over the Eighth Air Force (England) Fighter Command. His predecessor, Brigadier General Frank O'D. ("Monk") Hunter, was boosted to deputy commander of the Eighth. Short, broad-chested, Bill Kepner won a Distinguished Service Cross for capturing a German machine gun singlehanded in World War I. In the 1920s he was one of the Army's top airship pilots. Nine years ago he and Captain Albert W. Stevens took an Army-National Geographic Society balloon to 60,613 ft. over South Dakota before the bag ripped and they had to leave their...
...weeks after Pearl Harbor, Aircraft Warning Service volunteers were plentiful. When no Japs bombed the West Coast, interest ebbed, many plane spotters dropped out. A collapse in the volunteer system would have meant that 150,000 soldiers would have had to be turned into spotters. Brigadier General William E. Kepner, head of the Fourth Fighter Command, put the problem up to the four networks...