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Lieutenant General Frank Maxwell Andrews (February 3, 1884 – May 3, 1943) was a senior officer of the United States Army and one of the founders of the United States Army Air Forces, which was later to become the United States Air Force.
- 1906–1943
Lt. Gen. Frank Maxwell Andrews, United States Army officer: b. Nashville, Tenn., 3 Feb. 1884; d. on active duty in airplane crash over Iceland, 3 May 1943.
Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews. Before his premature death in 1943, Frank Maxwell Andrews played a major role in building the small U.S. Army Air Corps of the 1930s into the powerful U.S. Army Air Forces of World War II.
Frank M. Andrews (born February 3, 1884, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.—died May 3, 1943, Iceland) was a U.S. soldier and air force officer who contributed signally to the evolution of U.S. bombardment aviation during his command (1935–39) of the General Headquarters Air Force, the first U.S. independent air striking force.
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El teniente general Frank Maxwell Andrews (3 de febrero de 1884 - 3 de mayo de 1943) fue un alto oficial del ejército de los Estados Unidos y uno de los fundadores de las Fuerzas Aéreas del Ejército de los Estados Unidos, que fue más tarde para convertirse en la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos.
28 de nov. de 2017 · Yet when the B-24 bomber carrying Lt. Gen. Frank Maxwell “Andy” Andrews crashed into the side of an Icelandic mountain in May 1943, his historical legacy perished as instantly as he did. In fact, no full biography of the namesake of Andrews Air Force Base has ever been published.
Frank Andrews had been preparing himself for that moment through more than three decades of Army service. But perhaps his greatest contribution to Allied victory happened during his term as commander of the Army's General Headquarters Air Force from 1935 to 1939.
