Ennis Whitehead
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Ennis Clement Whitehead was an early United States Army aviator and a United States Army Air Forces general during World War II. Whitehead joined the U. S. Army after the United States entered World W
Lieutenant General Ennis C. Whitehead
Pan American Flyers receive Distinguished Service Cross certificates from President Calvin Coolidge (center) on May 2, 1927. Herbert Dargue on the left; Whitehead is second from the left.
Major General Whitehead, New Guinea, 1943
Paul Wurtsmith
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Paul Bernard Wurtsmith was a United States Army Air Forces general during World War II.
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…Force under Kenney's personal command. On paper, the organization followed the orthodox pattern, consisting of V Fighter Command under Brigadier General Paul Wurtsmith, V Bomber Command under Walker, and an Air Services Command under Major General Rush B. Lincoln. But Kenney realized that he would have to maintain his…
Major General Paul B. Wurtsmith
P-40E of the 7th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group in Australia, March 1942
The first Allied pilots to try out airstrip built by engineers of No. 62 Works Wing RAAF at Tadji are greeted by Air Commodore F. R. W. Scherger (extreme left) who controlled all Allied air operations from captured strips at Aitape. Left to right: Brigadier General Paul Wurtsmith, Commanding General, V Fighter Command (pilot of first allied combat plane to land); Colonel Leif J. Sverdrup (who squeezed into General Wurtsmith's single seated P-38 Lightning);