Kenneth Walker
✓ Source-basedfallingUnited States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient (1898-1943)
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Brigadier General Kenneth Newton Walker was a United States Army aviator and a United States Army Air Forces general who exerted a significant influence on the development of airpower doctrine. He posthumously received the Medal of Honor in World War II.
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A Curtiss P-36 Hawk fighter. Walker commanded the 18th Pursuit Group in Hawaii, which was equipped with this aircraft.![A Boeing B-17 bomber. This bomber promised to provide the technical capability to implement the Air Corps Tactical School's doctrine.[12]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Color_Photographed_B-17E_in_Flight.jpg/1280px-Color_Photographed_B-17E_in_Flight.jpg)
A Boeing B-17 bomber. This bomber promised to provide the technical capability to implement the Air Corps Tactical School's doctrine.[12]
Senior Allied commanders in New Guinea in October 1942. Left to right: Mr. Frank Forde; General Douglas MacArthur; General Sir Thomas Blamey; Lieutenant General George C. Kenney; Lieutenant General Edmund Herring; Brigadier General Kenneth Walker.
Walker with Lieutenant Colonel Richard H. Carmichael, the commander of the 19th Bomb Group, and Major General George C. Kenney, commander of the Fifth Air Force at Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1942
Ken Walker at his headquarters
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Lived 1898 to 1943 · aged 44
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