The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Hubert Reilly Harmon

Harmon, Hubert Reilly

Lieutenant-General

* 3rd of April 1892

† 22nd of February 1957

(USAAF/USAF)

Promotions

1936-10-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1940-03-01 Colonel (Temporary)
1941-06-26 Colonel (Army of the United States)
1941-09-30 Brigadier-General (Army of the United States)
1942-02-16 Major-General (Army of the United States)
1944-02-09 Colonel
1948-02-19 Major-General (United States Air Force)(Dated back to 1942.12.17)
1948-02-19 Lieutenant-General (Air Force of the United States)

Service

1936-08-18 1937-06-21 Commanding Officer 19th Bombardment Group
1937-09-XX 1938-06-XX Attending the Army War College
1938-07-14 1940-06-12 Attached to Operations Branch, G-1 Section, War Department General Staff
1940-09-07 1941-09-21 Commandant of the Air Corps Advanced Flying School
1940-09-07 1941-09-21 Commanding Officer Kelly Field, Texas
1941-09-22 1941-10-21 Commanding General Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center
1941-10-22 1941-11-30 Chief of Staff, Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center
1941-11-30 1942-11-21 Again, Commanding General Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center
1942-11-23 1943-11-08 Commanding General 6th Air Force [Panama]
1943-11-28 1944-03-15 Deputy Commander Aircraft South Pacific Forces
1944-01-07 1944-06-07 Commanding General 13th Air Force [Guadalcanal]
1944-03-15 1944-04-20 Commander Air Solomon Islands
1944-06-20 1945-02-19 Commanding General Personnel Distribution Command
1945-02-XX 1945-06-07 Assistant Chief of the Air Staff for Personnel, Headquarters US Army Air Forces
1945-07-01 1945-12-XX Commanding General Personnel Distribution Command
1946-01-01 1946-07-31 Commanding General 6th Air Force [Panama]
1946-07-31 1947-10-04 Commanding General Caribbean Air Command
1947-10-14 1953-06-30 Air Force Representative on Military Staff Committee, United Nations
1948-05-XX 1953-06-30 US Delegate to the Inter-American Defense Board
1949-12-XX 1953-06-30 Special Assistant for Air Academy Matters, Headquarters US Air Force
1953-06-30 Retired
1953-11-08 Recalled
1953-11-08 1954-08-14 Special Assistant for Air Academy Matters to the Chief of Staff of the US Air Force
1954-08-14 1956-07-27 Superintendent of the US Air Force Academy
1956-07-31 Retired
Picture source: Courtesy of Shawn M. Bohannon