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Blond, long-legged (6 ft., 185 Ibs.) "Opie" Weyland, California-born Texas A. & M. graduate, made his first general's fame as head of the XIX Tactical Air Command, which supported General George S. Patton Jr.'s Third Army on its advance through France and Germany. High point: Weyland's planes protected Patton's southern flank during the first streak to the Seine ("You do the worrying about my flank," said Patton), strafed 20,000 German troops so mightily that they surrendered to U.S. airpower...
Died. Raymond Stallings McLain, 64, first National Guard officer (Oklahoma) to achieve the rank of lieutenant general in the Regular Army, wartime commander of the XIX Corps in the Battle of the Bulge and in the drive across the Elbe, postwar comptroller of the Army and member of the National Security Training Commission, board chairman of Oklahoma City's American First Trust and Title Co.; of leukemia; in Washington...
...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...
...Walker actually got to France ahead of the XX Corps as temporary replacement for Major General Charles Corlett, the XIX Corps (First Army) commander, who was ill. † Attila the Hun took Metz in 451 A.D. In the Franco-German war of 1870, the French surrendered it rather than starve. The Germans held it at the beginning of World War I and took it without a fight in World...
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...