General of the Air Force
* 25th of June 1886
† 15th of January 1950
(USAAF)
Nickname: Hap
1931-02-01 | Lieutenant-Colonel |
1935-03-02 | Temporary Brigadier-General |
1938-09-22 | Major-General (Air Corps) |
1940-12-02 | Brigadier-General |
1941-02-03 | Major-General |
1941-12-15 | Lieutenant-General (Army of the United States) |
1943-03-19 | General (Army of the United States) |
1944-12-21 | General of the Army |
1949-05-07 | General of the Air Force |
1929-06-25 | – | 1931-10-29 | Commanding Officer of the Fairfield Air Depot Reservation, Ohio; later, Chief of the Field Service Section, Air Corps Material Division, Wright Field, Ohio |
1930-07-01 | – | 1931-10-29 | Executive Officer, Material Division, Office of the Chief of the Air Corps |
1931-11-26 | – | 1933-10-31 | Commanding Officer 1st Bombardment Wing |
1933-04-XX | – | 1935-02-XX | Commanding Officer March Field District (Civilian Conservation Corps), California |
1933-11-01 | – | 1935-03-01 | Commanding Officer 1st Pursuit Wing |
1934-02-XX | – | 1934-06-XX | Commander Western Zone Army Air Corps Mail Operations |
1934-06-23 | – | 1934-08-31 | Commanding Officer Alaska Flight |
1935-02-11 | – | 1936-01-11 | Commanding General 1st Wing |
1935-12-28 | – | 1938-09-21 | Assistant Chief of the Air Corps |
1938-09-22 | – | 1941-06-20 | Chief of the Air Corps |
1940-10-25 | – | 1942-03-09 | Acting Deputy Chief of Staff for Air, US Army |
1941-06-20 | – | 1942-03-09 | Chief of the US Army Air Forces |
1942-02-09 | – | 1945-XX-XX | Member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Combined British-American Chiefs of Staff |
1942-03-09 | – | 1946-02-09 | Commanding General US Army Air Forces |
1944-04-06 | – | 1945-07-16 | Commanding General 20th Air Force |
1946-06-30 |