Fifth Air Force
The Fifth Air Force ( German 5th US Air Force ) is one of the active air fleets ( English Numbered Air Force ) of the United States Air Force . The unit is stationed at Yokota Air Base in Japan and is under the command of the Pacific Air Forces . The commander of the Fifth Air Force has been the commander in chief of the United States Forces Japan since 1957 . The Fifth Air Force is one of the few US Air Force air fleets that has never been stationed in the United States.
history
The association was set up in the Philippines as the Philippine Department Air Force on August 16, 1941 , before the United States entered the Second World War , and renamed the Far East Air Force in October . After the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia and the lost battle for the Philippines in 1941/42, it was transferred to Java and later to Australia , where it was reorganized as the 5th Air Force . The equipment after the restructuring in Australia consisted of B-24 and B-25 bombers, A-20 attack aircraft and P-39 , P-40 fighters, which were subsequently supplemented or replaced by P-47 and P-51 .
Composition in Australia and New Guinea
Hunting associations:
- 8th Fighter Group (P-39) Townsville
- 35th Fighter Group (P-40) Port Moresby, New Guinea
- 49th Fighter Group (P-40) Darwin
Bomber formations
- 3rd Bomber Group (B-25, A-20, A-24) Charters Towers
- 22nd Bomber Group (B-26) Woodstock ( New South Wales )
- 38th Bomber Group (B-25) Charters Towers
- 43rd Bomber Group (B-17 to 1943; B-24 from 1943–1945) Port Moresby (New Guinea)
In November 1942 she was placed under the headquarters of the Southwest Pacific Area and was then involved in the Battle of New Guinea . From 1944 she served in the reconquest of the Philippines and in 1945 in the Battle of Okinawa . From June 1944 she formed the United States Far East Air Forces with the Seventh Air Force , the Thirteenth Air Force and the Twentieth Air Force . After the end of the war she was stationed in occupied Japan .
Composition at the end of the war
- V Fighter Command
- 3rd ACG (Air Commando Group) (P-51, C-47, L-5) (a self-sufficiency hunting group)
- 8th Fighter Group (P-40, P-38)
- 35th Fighter Group (P-47, P-51)
- 49th Fighter Group (P-40, P-47, P-38) (unit of Richard I. Bong)
- 58th Fighter Group (P-47)
- 75th Fighter Group (P-38)
- 348th Fighter Group (P-47, P-51)
- 418th Night Fighter Squadron
- 421st Night Fighter Squadron
- 547th Night Fighter Squadron
- 6th Reconnaissance Group (F-5, F-7)
- V Bomber Command
- 3rd Bomber Group (L) (B-25, A-20)
- 22rd Bomber Group (M / H) (B-26 - B-24)
- 38th Bomber Group (M) (B-25)
- 43rd Bomber Group (H) (B-24)
- 90th Bomber Group (H) (B-24)
- 312th Bomber Group (L) (A-20)
- 345th Bomber Group (M) (B-25)
- 380th Bomber Group (H) (B-24)
- 417th Bomber Group (L) (A-20)
- 71st Reconnaissance Group (B-25)
- 54th Troop Carrier Wing
The air fleet only had contact with the enemy in the Korean War, except in World War II . During the Cold War , logistical and personnel support was also provided for the units involved in the Vietnam War .
Current bases
(As of July 2017)
- Misawa Air Base , Misawa , Honshu - 35th Fighter Wing
- Yokota Air Base , at Fussa , Honshu - 374th Airlift Wing and 36th Airlift Squadron
- Kadena Air Base , near Naha , Okinawa - 18th Wing
Commander
| rank | Surname | Beginning of the command |
|---|---|---|
| Brigadier General | Henry B. Clagett | September 20, 1941 |
| Major General | Lewis H. Brereton | October 7, 1941 |
| - | - | February 25, 1942 |
| Lieutenant General | George Kenney | September 3, 1942 |
| Lieutenant General | Ennis C. Whitehead | June 15, 1944 |
| Major General | Kenneth B. Wolfe | October 4, 1945 |
| Major General | Thomas D. White | January 16, 1948 |
| Lieutenant General | Earle E. Partridge | October 6, 1948 |
| Major General | Edward J. Timberlake | May 21, 1951 |
| Major General | Frank F. Everest | June 1, 1951 |
| Lieutenant General | Glenn O. Barcus | May 30, 1952 |
| Lieutenant General | Samuel E. Anderson | May 31, 1953 |
| Lieutenant General | Roger M. Ramey | June 1, 1954 |
| Lieutenant General | Frederic H. Smith Jr. | June 20, 1956 |
| Lieutenant General | Robert W. Burns | 4th August 1958 |
| Major General | Robert F. Tate | July 6, 1961 (interim) |
| Lieutenant General | Jacob E. Smart | 2nd August 1961 |
| Lieutenant General | Maurice A. Preston | July 30, 1963 |
| Lieutenant General | Seth J. McKee | August 1, 1966 |
| Lieutenant General | Thomas K. McGehee | July 13, 1968 |
| Lieutenant General | Gordon M. Graham | February 24, 1970 |
| Lieutenant General | Robert E. Pursley | November 15, 1972 |
| Major General | Edward P. McNeff | March 1, 1974 (interim) |
| Lieutenant General | Walter T. Galligan | May 8, 1974 |
| Lieutenant General | George G. Loving Jr. | June 22, 1977 |
| Lieutenant General | William H. Ginn Jr. | June 14, 1979 |
| Lieutenant General | Charles L. Donnelly Jr. | 5th August 1981 |
| Lieutenant General | Edward L. Tixier | July 19, 1984 |
| Lieutenant General | James B. Davis | January 22, 1988 |
| Brigadier General | James M. Johnston III | July 18, 1991 (interim) |
| Lieutenant General | Richard E. Hawley | August 9, 1991 |
| Lieutenant General | Richard B. Myers | November 13, 1993 |
| Lieutenant General | Ralph E. Eberhart | June 18, 1996 |
| Lieutenant General | John B. Hall Jr. | June 27, 1997 |
| Lieutenant General | Paul V. Hester | September 3, 1999 |
| Lieutenant General | Thomas C. Waskow | November 19, 2001 |
| Lieutenant General | Bruce A. Wright | February 10, 2005 |
| Lieutenant General | Edward A. Rice Jr. | February 25, 2008 |
| Lieutenant General | Burton M. Field | October 25, 2010 |
| Lieutenant General | Salvatore A. Angelella | July 24, 2012 |
| Lieutenant General | John L. Dolan | 5th June 2015 |
| Lieutenant General | Jerry P. Martinez | October 18, 2016 |
| Lieutenant General | Kevin B. Schneider | 5th February 2019 |
Web links
- Homepage
- 5th Air Wing factsheet on afhra.af.mil
Individual evidence
- ↑ JWM Chapman, R. Drifte, ITM Gow: Japan's Quest for Comprehensive Security. Defense - Diplomacy - Dependence. Bloomsbury Academic, 2012, p. 35.
- ↑ Field takes command of US Forces Japan and 5th Air Force on usfj.mil .
- ↑ biography on af.mil .
- ↑ US Forces Japan gets new commander amid Asia-Pacific rebalance on stripes.com .
- ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on 5af.pacaf.af.mil .
- ↑ biography on 5af.pacaf.af.mil .
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