Ira Clarence Eaker
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Lieutenant general Ira Clarence Eaker 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.
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Captain Ira Eaker with a Boeing P-12
Brigadier General Ira C. Eaker in England
H.M. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth are greeted by Major General Frank Hunter and Major General Ira C. Eaker of the 8th U.S. Army Air Forces on the occasion of their visit to Duxford, Cambridgeshire on 26 May 1943.
Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker, Major General John K. Cannon, Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers, and Major General Thomas B. Larkin, 1944.
Eaker, fifth from right, playing volleyball with Soviet servicemen in Poltava during Operation Frantic
Bust of General Eaker at the Imperial War Museum Duxford
Eaker is pinned with his fourth star by General Charles A. Gabriel (left) and his wife Ruth (right) on April 1, 1985.Awards 10
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Lieutenant general Ira Clarence Eaker 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. While he struggled to build up airpower in England, the organization of the Army Air Forces evolved and he was named commander of the Eighth Air Force on December 1, 1942.
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