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Time Remaining To Bid: 64 days 17 hours 47 mins. 59 secs.
Item Will Close On Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 8:30:00 PM CST

Lot Number: 5935992

Category: L53 - Estate & Personal Collections

MAJOR GENERAL HUGH J. KNERR AAF COMMAND PILOT WING FROM HIS PERSONAL ESTATE

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Major General Knerr was recalled in 1942 to serve as deputy commander of the Air Force`s supply and maintenance organization, the Air Service Command, at Washington, D.C. and Patterson Field, Ohio. A year later, General Carl Spaatz, the great wartime leader of the 8th Air Force, made Brigadier General Knerr his deputy commanding general for administration as well as commander of the 8th Air Force Service Command. As a result, Knerr exercised theater-wide authority over logistical matters - and supply and maintenance won recognition as a function equal with combat operations.
Knerr became a major general in March 1944 and was appointed deputy commanding general of U.S. Air Forces, Europe, in June. A year later he was placed in command of Air Technical Service Command, which was reorganized to become the overall materiel and logistics command for the Air Force. 
General Knerr`s last three years of service to the Air Force were at the very highest levels. He served on the Joint Strategic Survey Committee in Washington; as special assistant to the commanding general of the Army Air Forces, General Spaatz; as secretary general of the Air Board; and as special assistant to the first secretary of the Air Force, Stuart Symington. 
In June 1948 General Knerr became the U.S. Air Force`s first inspector general. He retired, for the second time, in October 1949.
For more information go to http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=6083

WWII AAF Command pilot wing in sterling with makers hallmark is from his personal estate and given to Mr.Block in 1966 by General Knerr.

For more information on this collection go to http://www.manions.com/block.htm  Condition: 7

Opening Bid Amount: $20

Current Bid Amount: $20 Total Bids: 1
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