(Honorary) Ira Clarence Eaker (April 13, 1896 – August 6, 1987) was a general of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Eaker, as second-in-command...
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External links Spaatz Award – CAP Spaatz Association web site The General Ira C. Eaker Award is given by Civil Air Patrol in honor of the former Deputy Commander...
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Blytheville Air Force Base (redirect from Eaker AFB)
1988, the facility was renamed Eaker Air Force Base in honor of World War II General of the Eighth Air Force, Ira C. Eaker. It was located 3 miles (4.8 km)...
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Air University (United States Air Force) (redirect from Ira C. Eaker Center for Professional Development)
Studies Curtis E. Lemay Center for Doctrine Development & Education Ira C. Eaker College for Professional Development Air Force Chaplain Corps College...
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hotelier Ira Dubey (born 1984), Indian film actress Ira Einhorn (1940–2020), American convicted murderer Ira C. Eaker (1896–1987), American general Ira Allen...
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Ira Eaker (c. 1921 – June 26, 2002) was an American publisher, who was the co-founder of Backstage, with Allen Zwerdling a weekly trade newspaper that...
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1944, took over command of the Eighth Air Force from Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker at RAF Daws Hill. Doolittle was well known to American airmen as the...
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child actor, cancer. Paula Bauersmith, 78, American actress, cancer. Ira C. Eaker, 91, U.S. Army Air Forces general during World War II. Lena Küchler-Silberman...
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of U.S. First Army Lucian Truscott, commander of the U.S. Fifth Army Ira C. Eaker, U.S. Army Air Forces, commander of U.S. Eighth Air Force, later posthumously...
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the longest sentence returned to duty after serving 13 months. General Ira C. Eaker, commander of the Eighth Air Force, placed most of the blame for the...
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between a minimum of 100,000 and a maximum of 250,000". In 1965, General Ira C. Eaker identified the number as 135,000. Irving's first edition figures became...
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airmen were Major Herbert Dargue, Captains Ira C. Eaker and Muir S. Fairchild, and First Lieutenant Ennis C. Whitehead. Charles Lindbergh received the...
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March 29 – Wilhelm Ackermann, German mathematician (d. 1962) April 13 – Ira C. Eaker, World War II United States Army Air Forces general (d. 1987) April 15...
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Chiang Kai-shek (Chairman of the National Government of China) 1944 – Ira C. Eaker (general of the United States Army Air Forces) 1944 – Douglas Fairbanks...
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(908 TASG), which evolved into the present day 908th Airlift Wing; the Ira C. Eaker Center for Professional Development; the Air Force Financial Systems...
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anniversary of powered flight, December 17, 1953, by Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker USAF (retired). Beneath the memorial tablets in this sacred portal rest...
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Herget, Werner Schröer, Lieutenant General Adolf Galland and General Ira C. Eaker. 13 "Tough Old Gut: Italy (November 1942 – June 1944)" 30 January 1974 (1974-01-30)...
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the request. Devers and Eighth Air Force's commander, Major General Ira C. Eaker, spoke to the British Chiefs of Staff Committee, who agreed with them...
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modeled on the VIII Bomber Command's first commander, Major General Ira C. Eaker. Colonel Keith Davenport was based on the first commander of the 306th...
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approximately 300 to 330 US gal (1,100 to 1,200 L)). 8th Air Force General Ira C. Eaker experimented with British hardened paper drop tanks for the purpose of...
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in chief of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker, accompanied by Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers (deputy to General...
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to the exercise was Lieutenant Colonel Ira C. Eaker, the Chief of the Air Corps' Information Division. Eaker, who had a degree in journalism and had...
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age, was later put back into his plane by a decision of Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, flew some 15 flak-riddled missions in a P-38 before his disappearance...
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Eisenhower openly admired a uniform jacket worn by Major General Ira C. Eaker. Eaker's jacket had been specially made by a London tailor, modeled after...
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observation aircraft. Among the 262 Army pilots flying the mail were Ira C. Eaker, Frank A. Armstrong, Elwood R. Quesada, Robert L. Scott, Robert F. Travis...
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executive officer Captain Carl A. Spaatz and adjutant 1st Lieutenant Ira C. Eaker. Five months later Arnold became Air Officer of the Western Department...
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longer pose a threat to an Allied invasion of the continent. General Ira C. Eaker had proposed a combined offensive for this operation, named Operation...
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Iris Cummings (Alpha) – aviatior and swimmer in 1936 Summer Olympics Ira C. Eaker (Alpha) – aviation pioneer and aerobatic pilot Earle Foxe (Associate)...
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"Phase IV Completion".[citation needed] The grade accompanies the General Ira C. Eaker Award. In order for a cadet to earn this award, the cadet must have written...
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here." 18 August Capt. Ira C. Eaker takes Boeing P-12B, 29-441, c/n 1189, of the AC Detachment, Bolling Field, Washington, D.C., up for tests to see how...
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