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U.S. Air Force.
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Fickel was a former enlisted soldier who was
awarded a commission in 1907. He was assigned to the Aviation Section
of the Signal Corps during the First World War but did not qualify as
an aviator until the war was over. He attended the Command and General
Staff School and Army War College between the wars and eventually rose
to command 4 Air
Force when war broke out in the Pacific. He spent the remainder of
the war in technical training
commands.
| 1883-1-31 |
Born |
|
| 1904 |
Private |
Enlists in the Regular Army |
| 1907-2 |
First lieutenant |
Commissioned in the infantry. Assigned to 29 Regiment. |
| 1911 |
First lieutenant |
13 Regiment |
| 1913-11 |
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| 1916 |
Captain |
|
| 1917-3 |
Instructor, Officers Training camp |
|
| 1917-11 |
Headquarters, Aviation Section,
Signal Corps |
|
| 1918-5 |
Flight training |
|
| 1918-11 |
Commander, Carruthers Field,
Texas |
|
| 1919-1 |
Staff, Chief of Air Service |
|
| 1920-7-1 |
Major |
|
| 1921-3 |
Spruce Production Corporation, Portland |
|
| 1922 |
Chief, Supply Division, Air
Service |
|
| 1925-6 |
Graduates from Air Corps
Technical School |
|
| 1926-6 |
Graduates from Command and
General Staff School. executive, Materiel Division, McCook Field |
|
| 1927-4 |
Air Corps Advanced Flying School |
|
| 1927-7 |
Executive Officer, Materiel
Division, McCook Field |
|
| 1930 |
Lieutenant
colonel |
|
| 1931-6 |
Graduates from Army War College.
Chief, Buildings and Grounds Division, Office of the Chief of the Air
Corps |
|
| 1935-2 |
Colonel
|
Commandant, Air Corps Advance
Flying School, Kelly Field, Texas |
| 1936 |
Staff, IX Corps Area |
|
| 1939-3 |
Brigadier
general |
Commander, 1 Wing, March Field |
| 1940-2 |
Assistant to the Chief of the
Air Corps |
|
| 1940-10-12
|
Major general | Commander, Southwest Air
District, March Field |
| 1941-1 |
Commander, 4 Air Force |
|
| 1942-3-5 |
Commander, 3 District, Army Air
Forces Technical Training Command, Tulsa, Oklahoma |
|
| 1943 |
Commander, Eastern Technical
Training Command, Greensboro, North Carolina |
|
| 1945 |
Commander, Western Technical
Training Command, Denver, Colorado |
|
| 1946-9-1 |
Retired for disability in the
line of duty |
References
Generals.dk (accessed 2008-7-14)
U.S. Air
Force (accessed 2010-10-3)
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