Summary of Air Force Experience, General Otto P. Weyland, Washington, DC Part 9

Description

Covers interview of Gen Otto P. Weyland, USAF retiree, conducted by Mr Arthur K. Harmon, USAF Historical Division, who queries Gen Weyland regarding the highlights of his career. Gen Weyland graduated from Texas A & M College in 1923 and through the ROTC program accepted a commission in the Air Reserve. He completed flight training at Kelly Field, Texas, was assigned to the 12th Observation Squadron at Fort Sam Houston, and later became a flight instructor at Kelly Field. Gen Weyland talks of his training in the Air Corps Tactical School and his graduation from the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He also discusses his tour of duty as Chief of Staff of the Sixth AF and as Commanding General of the 84th Fighter Wing overseas, and then of the 19th Tactical Air Command in support of General Patton's Third Army. He touches on the problems of assembling an air force from a skeleton and the difficulties encountered in WWII and the Korean war. 2016' Total footage in reel.

Collection

Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities