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U.S. Air Force. Via ArlingtonCemetary.net
Lackland transferred from the infantry to the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps and was trained as an aviator during the First World War. He had risen to command of 4 Bomber Command by the time war broke out in the Pacific. However, he retired, apparently due to ill health, in June 1942, dying the next year.
Lackland proposed the establishment of an aviation cadet
training center at the future location of Lackland Air Force Base, near
San Antonio, Texas.
| 1884-9-13 |
Born in Virginia |
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| 1911 |
Second lieutenant |
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| 1922 |
Colonel
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Commander, San Antonio Air
Intermediate Depot |
| 1926 |
Commander, 3 Attack Group, Fort
Crockett, Texas |
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| 1928 |
Air Corps Tactical School |
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| 1929 |
Command and General Staff School |
|
| 1931 |
Commander, 12 Observation Group,
Fort Sam Houston |
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| 1931 |
Commander, Brooks Field, Texas |
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| 1934 |
Plans Division, Office of the
Chief of the Air Corps |
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| 1935 |
Chief, Field Service Section,
Air Corps Material Division, Wright Field, Ohio |
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| 1938 |
Commandant, Air Corps Advanced
Flying School, Kelly Field, Texas |
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| 1940 |
Brigadier
general |
Commander, 1 Wing (later 4
Bomber Command), March Field |
| 1942-6 |
Retires |
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| 1943-4-27 |
Dies at Walter Reed General
Hospital, Washington, D.C. |
References
ArlingtonCemetary.net (accessed 2012-5-5)
Generals.dk (accessed 2008-7-14)
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