Evening star., 1947-08-20
AAF Shifts 1S Generals
To Create Separate
Unit Under Merger
BY the Associofad Press

The Army Air Forces has shuffled
the assignments of 18 generals as
a preliminary step toward creation
of a separate air establishment
under the armed forces unification
plan.
The AAF will become an inde-
pendent organization "a hours after
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal as
sumes office as Secretary of Defense
late next month.
Among the officers involved in one
of the largest mass shifts in recent
years was Brig. Gen. John F.. Nc
CLAIM, veteran of the China Burma
India theater, who, will succeed Mai.
Gen. Idwal H. Edwards as COM
mand general of United States Air
Forces in Europe. Gen. Edwards re-
turns to headquarters for reassign-
ment.
Changes Listed.
Other officers and new posts:
Brig. Gen. Ernest Moore succeeds
Brig. Gen. Charles P. Cabell on the
United. Nations Military Staff Com
mittee The latter will be given a
new post.
Brig. Gen. Edward ). Timberlake,
who has been attending the Ma
tional War College, became chief of
the operations division, office of the
assistant chief of staff for opera
tions at AAF headquarters.
Brig. Gen. John P. Mcconnell
heads the Reserve and National
Guard Division, Office OF the assist
ant chief of air staff for operations
at AAF headquarters. He formerly
was chief of the air division of the
American advisory group in China
Douglass Heads ATC Unit.
Maj Gen. Robert w. Douglass,
tr,. becomes commanding general
of the Air Transport Commands
indoctrination division at San An
tonic, Tex, he formerly was COM
manding general of the 1st Air
Force.
Brig. Gen. Aubrey Lee Moore, who
served on the staff of the United
States forces in the European
theater, becomes commanding gen.
eral of Williams Field, Ariz.
Brig. Gen. Carl r. Mcdaniel,
former chief of staff of the 7th
Air Force in Hawaii, is named COM
manding general of the aerial OBJ
server-bombardier school at Mather
Field, Calf
Brig. Gen. Donald F.. STAGE, for
mer commander of the 7th Air
Force in Hawaii, becomes chief of
procurement and industrial plan
ming division in the Office of as
sistant chief of air staff for material
at AAF headquarters.
Strother Heads Personnel.
Brig. Gen. Dean c. Strother, a
War College graduate, is named
chief of Che military personnel divi-
sion in the Office of the Assistant
Chief Of Air Staff for personnel at
AAF headquarters.
Brig. Gen. George F. Schulgen be-
comes deputy to the assistant chief
of air staff for intelligence at AAF
headquarters and chief of the air
intelligence requirements division in
that office. He was on the war
planning staff in the Southwest |
Pacific area.
Brig. Gen. Richard c. Lindsay,
formerly assistant chief of staff for
intelligence with the Far East Air
Force in Japan, is assigned to the
AAF headquarters here for reas-
signment.
Hall to Go to Europe.
Maj. Gen. William E. Hall is as
signed to Europe for duty with the
Office Of military government for
Germany He was formerly mem
Der of the chief off staff's advisory
group.
Brig. Gen. Alden r. Crawford re-
Gently succeeded MAJ. Gen. Laurence
C. Craigie as chief of air materiel
commands engineering division at
Wright Field, Ohio.
Gen. Craigie returns to AAF
headquarters here to head the re-
search and engineer division in
the office of the assistant chief of
aiT staff for materiel, the post for
merry held by Gen. Crawford.
Brig. Gen. William F. Mckee,
former commanding general OF
headquarters command with the
United States Air Forces in Europe,
is returning to AAF headquarters
for reassignElent. as is Brig. Gen.
Lucas Victor Beau, jr, who had
been serving in the AAF's Euro
pean air transport service.
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