Barton Kyle Yount

Lieutenant General Barton Kyle Yount

Barton Kyle Yount (born January 18, 1884 in Troy , Miami County , Ohio ; † July 11, 1949 in Flagstaff , Coconino County , Arizona ) was an American Lieutenant General in the US Army Air Forces (USAAF), who last served between 1943 and 1945 Commanding General of the US Army Air Forces Training Command.

Life

Military training, officer and staff officer uses

Yount, son of Noah Yount and his wife Ivy Caroline Kyle Yount, began an undergraduate degree at Ohio State University in 1902 . However, he broke this off in 1903 to begin officer training at the United States Military Academy (USMA) in West Point . After he had completed this in 1907, he was promoted to lieutenant and found use as an officer in the infantry. In addition to posts in the USA, he was also deployed in Cuba and China . In 1919 he became commander of the military airport March Field and in 1921 in the office of the chief of the US Army Air Service (USAAS), Major General Mason M. Patrick , according to Washington, DC offset. After graduating from the Air Corps Engineering School, he was an air force attaché at the embassy in France from 1925 to 1929 .

After his return to the United States, Yount attended the Air Corps Tactical School at Langley Field Air Force Base in 1930 and was then in command of Rockwell Air Depot from July 1930 to July 1932, where he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on February 28, 1931 . He was then between July 1932 and July 1934 commander of the military airport Bolling Field and from July to August 1934 briefly member of the officers' committee of the Air Corps Technical School . After he attended the Army Industrial College from September 1934 to July 1935, from which today's Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy emerged , he was a graduate of the US Army War College in Carlisle between September 1935 and July 1936 and received there on April 1, 1936 his promotion to colonel . As such, he was from September 1936 to August 1938 Commander ( Commanding Officer ) of at Hawaii stationed 18th Composite Wing , which later became the 18th Strategic Aerospace Division was.

Promotion to lieutenant general and World War II

After his promotion to Brigadier General on July 17, 1938, Yount became Assistant Chief of Staff of the US Army Air Corps (USAAC) and held this post until October 2, 1940. At the same time he was in personal union between August 4, 1938 and January 25, 1939 Commanding General of the Air Corps Training Center at Randolph Field Air Force Base and from February 1939 to October 2, 1940 head of the training and operations department in the office of the head of USAAC. On October 2, 1940, he was promoted to major general and was briefly commanding general of the Air Force Department in the Panama Canal Zone (Panama Canal Department Air Force) from October to November 1940 , later the United States Air Forces Southern Command , and between December 18, 1940 and April 9, 1941 Commanding General of the Southeast Air District in Tampa and then from April 9, 1941 to January 15, 1942, Commanding General of the resulting 3rd Air Force (3rd Air Force / Third Air Force) . In addition, he was between July 1941 and January 15, 1942 Commanding General of the West Coast Air Force Training Center (West Coast Air Corps Training Center) at Moffett Field and then from January 28, 1942 to July 6, 1943 Commanding General of Fort Worth stationed air force flight training commandos (US Army Air Forces Flying Training Command) .

Most recently, Yount was Commanding General of the US Army Air Forces Training Command between July 7, 1943 and September 26, 1945 and was promoted to Lieutenant General on September 13, 1943 . On June 30, 1946, he retired from active military service after 39 years of service. For his services and military achievements, he has been awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal , the Legion of Merit , the Air Medal , the World War II Victory Medal , the American Defense Service Medal and the American Campaign Medal , among others . After his retirement, he became the founding president of the American Institute of Foreign Trade Institute , now the Thunderbird School of Global Management .

After his death he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. His son, Barton Kyle Yount, Jr., was a Colonel in the US Air Force and received three Distinguished Flying Crosses alongside the Legion of Merit .

Awards

•   Army Distinguished Service Medal
•   Legion of Merit
•   Air Medal
•   World War II Victory Medal
•   American Campaign Medal

Web links

• Entry in generals.dk
• Barton Kyle Yount in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barton Kyle Yount, Jr. in the Military Times Hall of Valor