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Lieut. Gen. Otto P. Weyland (rhymes with highland) succeeds Stratemeyer as commander of the Far East Air Forces...
...World War II, lean, towheaded "Opie" Weyland was chief of the XIX Tactical Air Command, which gave brilliant support to General George Patton's brilliant Third Army. Patton called Weyland "the best damn general in the Air Corps . . . He's not always trying to convince me a thing is impossible just because it can't be done...
After World War II, Weyland served in top staff jobs and as commander of the Tactical Air Command, became vice commander of Far East Air Forces at Tokyo less than a month after the Korean war broke out. He stayed on in Japan until a few weeks ago, when Washington recalled him to the U.S. to apply his experience as deputy commander of the new Tactical Air Command...
...most remarkable feats of tactical support was accomplished by flyers of Brigadier General Otto P. Weyland's Nineteenth Tactical Air Command. Patton had told Weyland his right flank would be exposed and he wanted "Opie" Weyland to cover it. Weyland did. For three weeks his aircraft kept some 30,000 Germans pinned down south of the Loire, while Patton drove on. The hopeless German commander finally surrendered. When he gave up his sword to a Ninth Army commander, says the report, he "asked, to maintain German honor, that General Weyland's aircraft, which had conquered his units, should...
Tall (6 ft.), gregarious Hoyt Vandenberg still had a big outfit and able sub-commanders. The XIX Tactical Air Command, headed by quiet, efficient Brigadier General Otto P. ("Opie") Weyland (rhymes with island) was Vandenberg's link to the battlefields of Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army. Vandenberg's bomber outfit was a whopper, headed by Brigadier General Samuel E. Anderson, whose Marauders and Havocs had played a big part in pushing the German airfields back from the Atlantic in advance of Dday...