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Hale commanded the Air Force detachment at Midway during the historic battle. Succeeding to command of 7 Air Force after its commander, Clarence Tinker, went missing in action in a raid on Wake, Hale led the air forces that
supported Spruance
during the Central Pacific
offensive, personally leading a long-range strike against Nauru. However, 7 Air Force was never given a strong bomber component, and it tended to be overshadowed by the carrier forces of Pacific Fleet.
Hale frequently clashed with Hoover over tactics. Hale favored high-altitude bombing with massed formations, so that the planes were out of antiaircraft range. Hoover believed that precision bombing at lower altitude was the better tactic. To some extent, the rift reflected the general antipathy felt towards Hoover, a Navy aviator, by the Army Air Forces in the Pacific.
| 1893
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Born |
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| 1934 |
Colonel
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Commander, 2 Bombardment Group,
Langley Field |
| 1935 |
Executive officer, 2 Wing,
Langley Field |
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| 1936 |
Army War College |
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| 1937 |
Executive officer, 19 Wing, Panama Canal |
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| 1938 |
Commander, 16 Pursuit Group,
Panama Canal |
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| 1939 |
Inspector general, General
Headquarters Air Force, Langley Field |
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| 1940 |
Chief of staff, Southeast Air
District, MacDIll Field |
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| 1941 |
Chief of staff, 3 Air Force,
Tampa |
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| 1941 |
Joint Planning Group, Defense of
Northeast Brazil |
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| 1941-12-16 |
Commander, III Interceptor
Command, Drew Field |
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| 1942-1-23 |
Major general | Commander, VII Bomber Command,
Fort Shafter, Hawaii |
| 1942-6-20 |
Commander, 7 Air Force, Hickam Field |
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| 1944 |
Commander, Air, Forward Areas,
Central Pacific (Task Force 59) |
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| 1945 |
Commander, Army Air Forces,
Pacific Ocean Areas |
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| 1945-7-6 |
Commander, 4 Air Force, San Francisco |
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| 1947 |
Commander, Caribbean Air Command |
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| 1949 |
Commander, 9 Air Force, Langley
AFB |
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| 1950 |
Commander, 1 Air Force, Mitchel
AFB |
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| 1950 |
Commander, Continental Air
Command, Mitchel AFB |
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| 1952 |
Retires |
References
Craven and Cate (1950; accessed 2012-5-22)
Generals.dk
(accessed 2008-3-7)
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