The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Robert Olds

Olds, Robert

Major-General

* 15th of June 1896

† 28th of April 1943

(USAAF)

Service

1935-06-XX 1937-02-XX Chief of Inspection Section, General Headquarters Air Force
1937-03-XX 1940-01-XX Commanding Officer 2nd Bombardment Group
1940-01-XX 1941-05-XX Assistant to the Chief of the Plans Division, Office of the Chief of the Air Corps
1941-05-XX 1942-03-XX Chief of the Air Corps Ferrying Command
1942-03-XX 1942-05-XX Attached to 3rd Air Force
1942-05-14 1943-02-25 Commanding General 2nd Air Force
1943-02-25 Hospitalized at Davis-Monthan Field, Arizona
1943-04-28 Died at the Desert Sanatorium, Tucson, Arizona
Picture source: Courtesy of Shawn M. Bohannon