BRIGADIER GENERAL ROBERT WILLIAM CALVERT WIMSATT Retired July 31,1953 Died September 11, 1964 Robert William Calvert Wimsatt was born November 6, 1899, in Washington, D.C., where he was graduated from high school in 1917, and from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, in 1921. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Service of the Regular Army November 1, 1921, and promoted immediately to first lieutenant. General Wimsatt then began flying training and was graduated from primary and advanced flying schools at Carlstrom Field, Florida, and Kelly Field, Texas, and rated a pilot in December, 1922. He was assigned as an instructor at the primary flying school at Brooks Field, Texas, until October, 1924, when he joined the 24th Pursuit Squadron in the Panama Canal Zone. In January, 1928, General Wimsatt was transferred to Langley Field, Virginia, where he served as a squadron operations officer and assistant post operations officer. In September, 1933, he was named adjutant and executive officer of the Middletown (Pennsylvania) Air Depot, and in December, 1936, became adjutant of the Headquarters School Squadron at the Air Corps Technical School, Chanute Field, Illinois. General Wimsatt entered the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Alabama, in September, 1937, and was graduated in June, 1938. He then entered the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from which he was graduated in June, 1939, and assigned as operations officer at Bolling Field, D.C. I n June, 1942, General Wimsatt assumed command of the Greenland Base Command. In August, 1943, he became commander of the air base at Newport, Arkansas, and in June, 1944, was named commander of Bolling Field. General Wimsatt was appointed assistant chief of staff for operations of the U.S. Forces in China, in January, 1945. He assumed command of the 315th Service Group there in September, 1945. From December, 1945, to April, 1946, General Wimsatt had temporary duty with the Officers Selection Board at AAF headquarters, Washington, D.C. He then returned to China as acting commander of the Nanking Air Division and in June, 1946, became deputy commander. General Wimsatt returned to the United States in July, 1946, and two months later became commander of Langley Field. In August, 1947, he was appointed commanding officer of the 363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing at Langley Field, and in April, 1949, assumed command of the 4th Fighter Wing there. In July, 1949, he was transferred to Mitchel Air Force Base, New York, where he served as commander of the 52nd Fighter Wing until September, 1949; as base commander until May, 1950, and then as deputy for material of the First Air Force. In July, 1950, General Wimsatt was appointed commander of the 6208th Depot Wing in the Philippine Islands. In June, 1951, he assumed command of the 19th Bomb Wing on Guam. General Wimsatt has been awarded the Legion of Merit with one Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star Medal, Army Commendation Ribbon, American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with one Bronze Star, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, and World War II Victory Medal. He is rated a Command Pilot, Combat Observer, and Technical Observer. General Wimsatt and his wife, Mrs. Helen Huber Wimsatt, have four children. PROMOTIONS Second Lieutenant, Air Service, November 1, 1921; First Lieutenant, November 1, 1921; discharged as First Lieutenant, and appointed Second Lieutenant, December 15, 1922; First Lieutenant, December 28, 1926; Major (temporary), March 2, 1935, to June 16, 1936; Captain, August 1, 1935; Major (temporary), March 1, 1940; Major, July 1, 1940; Lieutenant Colonel (temporary), July 23, 1941; Lieutenant Colonel, A.U.S., December 24, 1941; Colonel, A.U.S. (Air Corps), March 1, 1942; Colonel, A.U.S., November 27, 1943; Lieutenant Colonel, November 1, 1944; Colonel, April 2, 1948; Brigadier General (temporary), March 8, 1952, with date of rank from January 26, 1952. Arlington National Cemetery
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MAJOR GENERAL THOMAS CEBERN MUSGRAVE JR.
Born July 5, 1913, Retired June 01, 1962 Died November 14, 2005 Thomas Cebern Musgrave Jr. was born in Washington, D.C., in 1913. He attended St. John's Military Academy in Delafield, Wis., entered the U.S. Military Academy, graduated June 12, 1935 and was commissioned a second lieutenant of Infantry. After graduating from Primary and Advanced Flying School at Randolph and Kelly fields, Texas on Oct. 1, 1936, General Musgrave transferred to the Air Corps. He was assigned to Langley Field, Va., with the 36th Pursuit Squadron until February 1939 when he moved to Wheeler Field, Hawaii with the Sixth Pursuit Squadron, 19th Pursuit Squadron and the 15th Pursuit Group successively. In March 1941 he became chief of the Special Project Sections at the Air Corps Advanced Flying School, Kelly Field, and that October he transferred to the Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center Headquarters at Randolph Field. Moving to the Panama Canal Zone in November 1942, General Musgrave served with the Sixth Air Force, Sixth Bomber Command, 26th Fighter Command, and Sixth Air Force successively at Albrook Field. In December 1943 he was appointed assistant chief of staff for operations of the 58th Bomb Wing at Salina, Kan., and the following month assumed that position with the 73rd Bomb Wing there. He assumed command of the 499th Bomb Group at Clovis, N.M., in February 1944. Later that month he went to the Pacific Theater as commanding officer of the Fifth Bomb Group, 13th Air Force. Wounded in action over the Carolines on April 22, 1944, he was hospitalized until that Aug. 15, and then resumed command of the Fifth Bomb Group. Transferred to Army Air Force Headquarters at Washington, D.C. in April 1945, General Musgrave was named deputy chief of the Military Personnel Division in the Office of the Assistant Chief of Air Staff for Personnel. He was named executive officer that July, and a year later became executive officer to the commanding general of the Army Air Force. Entering the Air War College at Maxwell Field, Ala., in July 1947, he graduated a year later and assumed command of the 52nd Fighter Wing at Mitchel Air Force Base, N.Y. He entered the National War College in September 1949, graduated the following June, and a month later became deputy Air Force member of the Joint Strategic Plans Committee for Air Force Headquarters. Joining the Strategic Air Command in April 1952, General Musgrave assumed command of the 47th Air Division at Walker Air Force Base, N.M. Going to England in July 1954, he assumed command of the Seventh Air Division, SAC. Returning to Washington D.C., Aug. 20, 1955, General Musgrave became Deputy U.S. Representative to the Standing Group, North Atlantic Treaty Organization until Jan. 9, 1956 when he was assigned as deputy director, Manpower and Organization, in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, becoming the director on June 14, 1956. His decorations include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Peruvian Military Order of Ayachucho and the Bolivian Order of Condor of the Andes. He is rated a command pilot. |
Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery
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MAJOR GENERAL THOMAS JAMES HANLEY JR.
Died March 01, 1969 Thomas James Hanley Jr., was born at Coshocton, Ohio, in 1893, the third of six children of Thomas J. Hanley Sr., who had come to the United States from Ireland, and the former Miss Mary Margaret O'Connor at Cresson, Pa. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy and was commissioned a second lieutenant of Infantry June 12, 1915. His first assignment was with the 23rd Infantry at Texas City, Texas. In August 1916, he was detailed to the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps and entered the Signal Corps Aviation School at San Diego, Calif. After graduating from flying school the following April, he was assigned to the First Aero Squadron at Columbus, N.M., and a month later transferred to Kelly Field, Texas, where he served successively with the 5th and 19th aero squadrons. |
Douglas Blakeshaw was born on February 4, 1885 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Son of Tom and Ann (Wood) Netherwood. Died August 19, 1943
Brought to the United States, 1887, naturalized U.S. citizen, 1910. Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas, 1908. Master of Business Administration, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1927. Graduated: Army Industrial College, 1925; Air Corps Tactical School, 1932; Army Industrial College, 1934; Army War College, 1936. Career: Enlisted in U.S. Army, 1908, Fort Sam Houston, TX. Served in 20th Company Coast Artillery Corps (C.A.C.) at Ft. Barrameas, FL as private, corporal, sergeant till 1911. Commissioned 2nd Lt. C.A.C. second in command in 1911. Commanded 160th Company "Battery Russell" seacoast battery 1912-1913. Applied for and joined U.S. Army 1st Aero Squadron and completed Signal Corps Aviation School, North Island, CA, 1913, with first solo flight, San Diego, CA, Feb. 7, 1914. 1914-1939 advanced through Aero Club of America aviator certification ratings of Junior Military Aviator, Expert Aviator, Military Aviator, Airplane Pilot, Airplane Observer, Command Pilot, and Combat Observer. 1914-1940 advanced through military grades to brigadier general (temporary) with commands at: Aviation Repair Depot, Love Field, Dallas; Souths Field, Americus, GA; Nichols Field and Group Commander 4th Composite Group, Manila, Philippine Islands; Air Corps Board, Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL; Mitchel Field and NY World's Fair Aviation Building, Long Island, NY; 13th Bombardment Wing, Albrook Field, 13 Strategic Missile Division, Panama Canal Zone; Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico; Baer Field, Fort Wayne, IN. Membership Army and Navy Club , Manila
Douglas Blakeshaw Netherwood was in an aircraft (I believe an Army high-wing, single-engine, 2-seater, Piper-like utility aircraft) somewhat like the attachment that was being flown by an NCO who had taken off with my grandfather from an airfield in Florida and never returned. In the early 1960s, a nearly intact fuselage of this aircraft was found in the Okeefenokee Swamp of Florida by an airboat hunting or fishing party. The only artifact found in the cockpit was a flight boot believed to be the pilot's. There was no evidence of it having been a fatal crash, but anything else would be speculation Via email from Blake Netherwood, 12-4-05 Grandson of D. B. Netherwood, Courtesy Ralph Cooper, https://www.earlyaviators.com/enetherw.htm Married to Harriet Van Cortlandt Bowne on April 30, 1919. Children: Douglas Blakeshaw, Jr., Francis Bowne, William Draper, Elizabeth Grant. |
College Station, TX
1906 Texas A&M Sophomore Engineers, Cadet D. B. Netherwood Third from Left Sitting |
MAJOR GENERAL JAMES E. CHANEY
James Eugene Chaney was born at Chaney, Md., in 1885, the son of Dr. Thomas W. Chaney. He attended Baltimore City College for three years and was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., June 16, 1904. Upon graduation Feb. 14, 1908, he was appointed a second lieutenant of Infantry. SERVICE He first served with the 9th Infantry at Fort Sam Houston, Texas to February 1910; then detached service in Europe, Africa and Asia to July 1910. He next served with his regiment at Iloilo, Philippine Islands, to June 1912. he returned to the U.S. to became instructor in modern languages at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. until July 1914. In September 1914, he joined the 30th Infantry at the Presidio of San Francisco, Calif. He served with the 25th Infantry at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii to September 1917, when he was detailed in the Air Service and returned to the U.S. He was stationed at Chanute Field, Ill., until November 1917; became commandant of the School of Military Aeronautics, Columbus, Ohio to June 1918; and executive officer, Operations Section, Office of the Director of Military Aeronautics, Washington, D.C. to August 1918. He sailed for Europe in August 1918, where he served at Air Service Headquarters Service of Supplies, to September 1918; with the Coordination Staff, Headquarters of the Chief of Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, to October 1918; and in the Office of the Chief of Air Service and executive officer, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces to February 1919. He commanded the airdrome at Cablenz, Germany to April 1919 and served in the Office of the Air Service Commander, Third Army, at Coblenz, Germany to June 1919. He then commanded the Air Service Production Center at Romerantin, France to August 1919 and was U.S. aviation officer, Provisional District of Great Britain to October 1919. He was appointed assistant military attach for aviation at Rome, Italy in October 1919, where he served until June 1924. In the summer of 1924 he was assigned to duty at Langley Field, Va., to October 1924. He attended the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., completing the course as an honor graduate in June 1926. He was commandant of the Air Corps Primary Flying School, Brooks Field, to March 1928, and commandant of the Air Corps Advanced Flying School, Kelly Field, Texas, to June 1930. |
MAJOR GENERAL FOLLETT BRADLEY
Retired May 01,1944 Died August 04,1952 Follett Bradley was born in Omaha, Neb., in 1890. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated with a bachelor of science degree on June 4, 1910, and was commissioned an Ensign. He served in the Navy until Jan. 24, 1912, when he accepted a commission as second lieutenant of Field Artillery, U.S. Army. His first assignment was with the 6th Field Artillery at Fort Riley, Kan. A pioneer in aviation, as far back as 1912, he participated on several flights in an early Wright biplane at Fort Riley developing aerial spotting techniques for field artillery fire coordination. In June 1914, he accompanied his regiment to Laredo, Texas, was promoted to first lieutenant and detailed to the Ordnance Department. The following year he was ordered to the Sandy Hook Proving Ground, N.J., to attend the Ordnance School of Application. In 1916 he learned to fly at Mineola, Long Island, N.Y. He was promoted to captain on May 15, 1917, and in August 1917 was ordered overseas, serving under the Air Commander, American Expeditionary Forces, Zone of Advance, connected with the armament of airplanes and aerial gunnery. During his service overseas, he piloted Curtiss, Nieuport, Spad and DeHaviland type airplanes. On Nov. 26, 1917, he received the rating of Junior Military Aviator. |
Walter R. Weaver was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 23, 1885, the son of Major General E. M. Weaver, United States Army. Following graduation from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, with a Bachelor of Science degree, he was appointed a Second Lieutenant of Infantry on February 14, 1908.
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