The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Walter Edwin Todd

Todd, Walter Edwin

Lieutenant-General

* 25th of June 1906

† 1st of March 1978

(USAAF/USAF)

Promotions

1942-02-01 Lieutenant-Colonel (Army of the United States)
1942-03-01 Colonel (Army of the United States)(Air Corps)
1942-11-13 Colonel (Army of the United States)
1944-11-18 Brigadier-General (Army of the United States)
1947-10-28 Major-General (Air Force of the United States)
1948-04-02 Colonel (United States Air Force)
1949-09-15 Brigadier-General (Air Force of the United States)

Service

1941-08-07 1942-03-08 Executive Officer, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Personnel (A-1), Headquarters US Army Air Forces
1942-03-XX 1943-05-24 Attached to Southwest Pacific Division, Theater Group, Operations Division, War Department General Staff
1943-06-01 1944-05-05 Deputy Chief of Strategy & Policy Group for Air, Operations Division, War Department General Staff
1944-05-17 1944-06-18 Assistant to the Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations & Training (A-3), 8th Air Force [United Kingdom]
1944-06-19 1944-06-30 Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations & Training (A-3), 8th Air Force [United Kingdom]
1944-07-01 1945-05-10 Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, 8th Air Force [United Kingdom]
1945-06-01 1945-10-29 Chief of Theater Division, Office of the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff for Plans, Headquarters US Army Air Forces
1945-11-02 1947-02-09 Military Air Attaché to Soviet Union
1947-02-21 1947-11-14 Deputy Director of Intelligence Division, War Department General Staff
1947-11-15 1949-10-06 Deputy Director of Joint Intelligence Group, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1949-10-07 1952-01-15 Deputy Assistant for Programming, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Headquarters US Air Force
1952-02-05 1955-09-XX Commanding General Western Air Defense Force
1955-09-15 1956-07-11 Vice Commanding General 5th Air Force [Japan]
1956-07-12 1957-06-XX Vice Commanding General Far East Air Forces [Japan]
1956-07-12 1957-06-XX Chief of Staff, Far East Air Forces [Japan]
1957-07-01 1958-07-XX Commander in Chief of United Nations Command Korea
1957-07-01 1958-07-XX Chief of Staff, US Forces Korea
1958-07-15 1961-07-31 Commanding General Air University
1961-07-31 Retired
Picture source: http://www.af.mil/shared/media/bio/hi_res/todd_we.jpg