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Home Town Houston
Last Address Bien Hoa AB
Date of Passing Jan 07, 1964
Location of Interment Alexander Cemetery - DeWitt, Texas
Maj. Hughie D. Adams of Houston, Texas and Maj Cleveland W. Gordon, Pittsburgh, PA, died when their B-26B (tail number 44-35207) crashed 10 miles south of Bien Hoa during a post-maintenance test flight.
Major Adams departed for Vietnam on September 16, 1963. His wife was told by a young Lt. that Major Adams plane "disintegrated in midair." Source: San Antonio Express, May 27, 1964
"Hughie "Major Hughie" Darell Adams
Birth: May 23, 1920
Death: Jan. 7, 1964
Note: Texas Major 1 Air Commando SQAF
WWII Viet Nam
Created by Debra Hoch
Record added: Apr 06, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial #25789939"
Source: http://www.findagrave.com
Alexander Cemetery in DeWitt County, Texas:
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Major Adams graduated from Yoakum High School (Source: San Antonio Express, May 21, 1939). At the time of his death he was due to retire in another year and was a veteran of World War II and Korea. He flew 13000 hours during WWII; dropped paratroopers in Europe on D-Day and flew troops to Africa and China. He volunteered for Vietnam so he could end his career "as one of the first air commandos." (Source: Abilene Reporter News, May 28, 1964)
Note: Then Private Adams attended flight school with the Army Air Corps, which became the Army Air Forces. He was a SSgt pilot in World War II. The Army Air Forces became the United States Air Force in 1947.
The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the military aviation arm of the United States of America between 1926 and 1941. The statutory administrative forerunner of the United States Air Force, it was renamed from the earlier United States Army Air Service on 2 July 1926 and part of the larger United States Army. The Air Corps was the immediate predecessor of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), established on 20 June 1941. Although discontinued as an administrative echelon during World War II, the Air Corps (AC) remained as one of the combat arms of the Army until 1947, when it was legally abolished by legislation establishing the Department of the Air Force.
The Air Corps was renamed by the United States Congress largely as a compromise between the advocates of a separate air arm and those of the traditionalist Army high command who viewed the aviation arm as an auxiliary branch to support the ground forces. Although its members worked to promote the concept of air power and an autonomous air force between the years between the world wars, its primary purpose by Army policy remained support of ground forces rather than independent operations.
On 1 March 1935, still struggling with the issue of a separate air arm, the Army activated the General Headquarters Air Force for centralized control of aviation combat units within the continental United States, separate from but coordinate with the Air Corps. The separation of the Air Corps from control of its combat units caused problems of unity of command that became more acute as the Air Corps enlarged in preparation for World War II. This was resolved by the creation of the Army Air Forces (AAF), making both organizations subordinate to the new higher echelon.
The Air Corps ceased to have an administrative structure after 9 March 1942, but as "the permanent statutory organization of the air arm, and the principal component of the Army Air Forces," the overwhelming majority of personnel assigned to the AAF were members of the Air Corps.
