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U.S. Air Force
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Fredrick L. Martin was commander of Hawaiian
Air Force
at the time of the attack on Pearl
Harbor. When he was given this assignment, he was the Air Corps'
senior
pilot with over 2000 hours
of flight time. However, he was in poor health, with severe ulcers that
forced him to give up all alcohol. He was dutiful to the point of being
a chronic worrier, and his eagerness to work well with officers from
other services caused some of his airmen to label him a "fuddy-duddy."
Over half of Martin's aircraft were destroyed on the ground during the Pearl Harbor attack, at least in part because they were parked closely together in the middle of the runways as a precaution against sabotage. Because this order originated with Short, and because Martin and Bellinger had submitted a report in March 1941 pointing out the vulnerability of Hawaii to a dawn air raid from carriers, Martin was officially cleared of blame for the Pearl Harbor disaster. However, his ulcers began hemorrhaging during the Pearl Harbor attack, and he appears to have suffered a mild nervous breakdown later in the day, for which his chief of staff had him hospitalized. He was relieved by Tinker early in 1942.
| 1882-11-26
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Born at Liberty, Indiana |
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| 1908 |
Second
lieutenant |
Graduates from Purdue
University, Commissioned in the Coast Artillery
Corps and assigned to Fort
Flagler, Washington |
| 1911-3-11 |
First lieutenant |
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| 1912-12-29 |
Coast Artillery School |
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| 1913-11-9 |
Fort Ward, Washington |
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| 1916-1-1 |
Fort Kamehameha, Hawaii |
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| 1916-7-1 |
Captain |
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| 1917-10-3 |
Director, Military Aeronautics,
Washington, D.C. |
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| 1918-8-19 |
Supply
Section, American Expeditionary Force, France |
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| 1919-2 |
Property Division, Air Services,
Washington, D.C. |
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| 1920-7-1 |
Major |
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| 1920-8-23 |
Air Service Pilots School |
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| 1921-6-30 |
Commandant, Air Service
Mechancis School |
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| 1921-10-4 |
Commander, U.S. Air Service
Around-the-World Flight |
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| 1924-10-11 |
Air Service Tactical School |
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| 1925-8-3 |
Command and General Staff School |
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| 1926-6-30 |
Commander, Bolling Field,
District of Columbia |
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| 1927-3-30 |
Chief, Inspection Division,
Office of the Chief of the Air Corps |
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| 1930-7-7 |
Commandant, Air Corps Advanced
Flying School, Kelly Field, Texas |
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| 1931-9-22 |
Commandant, Air Corps Primary
Flying School, Randolph Field, Texas |
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| 1933-8-31 |
Lieutenant
colonel |
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| 1934-7-3 |
Executive officer, Air Corps
Material Division |
|
| 1934 |
Army War College |
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| 1935-6-28 |
Colonel
|
Commander, Wright Field, Ohio |
| 1937-3-31 |
Brigadier
general |
Commander, 3 Wing, Barksdale,
Louisiana |
| 1940-10-1 |
Major general |
Commander, Hawaiian
Air Force |
| 1942-1-26 |
Commander, 2 Air Force, Fort George Wright, Washington |
|
| 1942 |
Commander, 2 District, USAAF
Central Technical Training Command, St. Louis |
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| 1944-8-1
|
Retired (disability in the line
of duty) |
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| 1954-2-24 |
Dies at Los Angeles |
References
Arlington
National Cemetary Website (accessed 2009-11-20)
Generals.dk
(accessed 2008-1-11)
Prange
(1981)
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