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General (Honorary) Ira Clarence Eaker (April 13, 1896 [1] – August 6, 1987) was a general of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Eaker, as second-in-command of the prospective Eighth Air Force, was sent to England to form and organize its bomber command.
Ira Clarence Eaker, né le 13 avril 1896 à Feld Creek et mort le 6 août 1987 à Andrews Air Force Base , était un général de l'USAAF (force aérienne de l'armée des États-Unis), qui a notamment commandé la 8th USAAF au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
On April 30, 1945, General Eaker was named deputy commander of the Army Air Forces and chief of the Air Staff. He retired Aug. 31, 1947, and was promoted to lieutenant general on the retired list June 29, 1948. General Eaker is a pilot with 12,000 flying hours in 30 years of flying.
26 janv. 2024 · Airpower pioneer and commander of the Mighty Eighth. Ira Eaker joined the Army during World War I as an infantryman, but soon transferred to the Air Service and became a pilot. While at Rockwell Field, Calif., in 1918 he met Henry H. “Hap” Arnold and Carl “Tooey” Spaatz.
On August 5, 1942, Brig. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, the 47-year-old, Texas-born commander of the Eighth Bomber Command, and General Carl “Tooey” Spaatz, first commander of the Eighth Air Force, had gone to the London headquarters of Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, newly appointed commander of the U.S. European Theater of Operations, and presented a ...
9 oct. 2021 · Ira Eaker became a pilot in 1918. As a general, he was the Eighth Air Force’s first commander. From February 1942 he faced the difficult task of beginning the bombing campaign against Germany, working with his British allies.
1 déc. 2005 · Gen. Ira C. Eaker helped shape World War II airpower and pave the way for an independent United States Air Force. For those and other reasons, his name is respected, yet his historical image is often overshadowed by his more prominent colleagues and friends, Gen. Henry H. “Hap” Arnold and Gen. Carl A. “Tooey” Spaatz.
