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Portrait of Major-General Robert Olds

Olds

Robert, Major-General

(1896 – 1943) (USAAF)

1927
- 1928
Student at the Air Corps Tactical School, Langley Field, Virginia
1928
In charge of selected correspondence courses at the Air Corps Tactical School, Langley Field, Virginia
1929
Director of Correspondence Courses at the Air Corps Tactical School, Langley Field, Virginia
1929
Instructor at the Air Corps Tactical School, Langley Field, Virginia
1930
- 1931
Director of the Extension Course Department of the Air Corps Tactical School, Langley Field, Virginia
1931
- 1933
Operations Officer of the 2d Bombardment Group, Langley Field, Virginia
1933
- 1935
Student at the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
1935
- 1937
Chief of the Inspection Section, General Headquarters Air Force, Langley Field, Virginia
1937
- 1940
Commanding Officer of the 2d Bombardment Group, Langley Field, Virginia
1938
Commanding Officer of six Y1B-17 bombers on a goodwill mission from Langley Field to Buenos Aires, Argentina - the mission garnered the Distinguished Flying Cross for Olds and the 1938 Mackay Trophy for the entire 2d Bombardment Group in recognition of the 11,952-mile flight
1940
- 1941
Assistant to the Chief of the Plans Division, Office of the Chief of the Air Corps, Washington, D.C.
1941
- 1942
Chief of the Air Corps Ferrying Command
1942
Duty with the staff of Headquarters Third Air Force, Tampa, Florida
1942
- 1943
Commanding General of the Second Air Force, Fort George Wright, Washington
1943
Hospitalized at Davis-Monthan Field, Arizona
1943
Died at the Desert Sanatorium, Tucson, Arizona
Picture source: Courtesy of Shawn M. Bohannon