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Lieutenant General Frank Maxwell Andrews (February 3, 1884 – May 3, 1943) 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.
Frank Maxwell Andrews, né le 3 février 1884 à Nashville, dans le Tennessee et mort le 3 mai 1943 à Fagradalsfjall, en Islande, est un lieutenant général américain et un des membres fondateurs de l'United States Army Air Forces [1].
Before his premature death in 1943, Frank Maxwell Andrews played a major role in building the small U.S. Army Air Corps of the 1930s into the powerful U.S. Army Air Forces of World War II. Furthermore, he had become one of the key military commanders in the United States' armed forces.
One of the best informed men of military aviation, and a skilled pilot with fine flying record; General Andrews advocated a strong air force; and urged, as early as 1935, the construction of great fleets of four-motored bombers.
Frank M. Andrews was a U.S. soldier and air force officer who contributed signally to the evolution of U.S. bombardment aviation during his command (1935–39) of the General Headquarters Air Force, the first U.S. independent air striking force.
24 avr. 2022 · Frank Andrews had been preparing himself for that moment through more than three decades of Army service. But perhaps his greatest contribution to Allied victory happened during his term as commander of the Army's General Headquarters Air Force from 1935 to 1939.
Learn about the life and achievements of Frank Maxwell Andrews, a pioneer of Army air power and a founding father of the U.S. Air Force. He commanded the Panama Canal Air Force, the Caribbean Air Force, and the U.S. European Theater of Operations in World War II.
