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Ryan was a young cavalry officer when he took pilot training in 1917. He served with the Aviation Section, Signal Corps, throughout the First World War but transferred to the field artillery in 1921. Following study at the Command and General Staff School in 1927, he returned to aviation, and was in command of 4 Fighter Command when war broke out in the Pacific.
Ryan reported to the press that the Japanese carrier aircraft had
attempted a large raid on San
Francisco the night after the attack on Pearl Harbor. There was no
Japanese carrier within three thousand miles (5000 km) of San
Francisco that night, and the false alarm seems to have tainted
Ryan, who was relieved early in 1942 and received no further
combat commands during the war.
| 1891-8-10
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Born at San Antonio, Texas |
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| 1914 |
Second lieutenant |
Graduates from West Point and commissioned in the cavalryaircraft |
| 1917 |
Signal Corps Aviation School |
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| 1917 |
Aviation Section, Signal Corps |
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| 1921 |
Major |
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| 1927 |
Command and General Staff school |
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| 1933 |
Air Corps Tactical School |
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| 1936 |
Colonel
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Commander, Bolling Field,
District of Columbia |
| 1938 |
Army War College |
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| 1939 |
Instructor, Army War College |
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| 1940 |
Inspector, 18 Bombardment
Wing, Hickam Field |
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| 1940 |
Chief of staff, Hawaiian Air
Force |
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| 1941-8-3 |
Brigadier
general |
Commander, 4
Fighter Command, March
Field |
| 1942-6 |
Commander, Pacific Division,
Air Transport Command |
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| 1946-9 |
Retired for disability in the
line of duty |
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| 1980-3-11 |
Dies at Monterey, California |
References
Air Force Historical Research Agency (accessed 2011-3-25)
Generals.dk (accessed 2008-7-14)
Rense.com
(accessed 2011-3-25)
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