Frank Maxwell Andrews
✓ Source-basedrisingUnited States Army general (1884-1943)
United StatesLived 1884 to 1943 · aged 59Frank Maxwell Andrews was a senior officer of the United States Army and one of the founders of the United States Army Air Forces, which was later to become the United States Air Force.
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Lieutenant General Andrews (in the middle) inspects a radio set at the Command Post of the Provisional Maneuver Force in Puerto Rico, November 1941. Next to him are generals: James Lawton Collins and Harry C. Ingles.
U.S. Army personnel remove bodies from the wreckage of Andrews' B-24 after it struck a mountainside in Iceland, May 1943.
Andrews' grave at Arlington National Cemetery
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Frederick C. WeyandAlso won American Campaign Medal
Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North CapeAlso won Inter-Allied Victory Medals
Eugene Burton ElyAlso won National Aviation Hall of Fame
Anatoly PepelyayevAlso won Croix de Guerre
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of VimyAlso won Inter-Allied Victory MedalsAbout this person
Frank Maxwell Andrews was a senior officer of the United States Army and one of the founders of the United States Army Air Forces, which was later to become the United States Air Force. In leadership positions within the Army Air Corps, he succeeded in advancing progress toward a separate and independent Air Force where predecessors and allies such as Billy Mitchell had failed. Andrews was the first head of a centralized American air force and the first air officer to serve on the Army's general staff. In early 1943, he took the place of General Dwight D. Eisenhower as commander of all U.S. troops in the European Theater of Operations.
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