(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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100 to 1,200 litres or 300 to 330 US gallons). 8th Air Force General Ira C. Eaker experimented with British hardened paper drop tanks for the purpose of...
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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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General James H. Doolittle assumes command, replacing Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker who will go to Italy as Commanding General Mediterranean Allied Air Force...
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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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/ Commander, U.S. Army Air Forces (credited as H.H. Arnold) General Ira C. Eaker as himself / Commander of the 8th Air Force Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester...
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April 1985, retired Air Force lieutenant generals James H. Doolittle and Ira C. Eaker were advanced to the grade of general on the retired list at the behest...
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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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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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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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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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thanks to the efforts of Twining and several OSS officers, General Ira C. Eaker directed the 15th Air Force to establish an Air Crew Rescue Unit (ACRU)...
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airfield during World War II. It is named after U.S. Army Air Force General Ira C. Eaker, early commander of the legendary Eighth Air Force in wartime England...
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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (redirect from Boeing B-17B/C Flying Fortress)
Pointblank opened with attacks on targets in Western Europe. General Ira C. Eaker and the Eighth Air Force placed highest priority on attacks on the German...
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