Paul Bernard Wurtsmith was a United States Army Air Forces general during World War II.
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);
Thirteenth Expeditionary Air Force
The Thirteenth Expeditionary Air Force is a provisional numbered air force of the United States Air Force Pacific Air Forces (PACAF). It is headquartered at Hickam Air Force Base, Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. It has never been stationed in the continental United States.
B-25 Mitchells from the 42d Bombardment Group fly over Bougainville from their base at Stirling Airfield, Stirling Island, Solomon Islands, 1944
Image: Thirteenth Air Force Emblem (World War II)
Image: Lt Gen Nathan F. Twining
Image: Lieutenant General Hubert R. Harmon
