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William Wallace Momyer (September 23, 1916 – August 10, 2012) was a general officer and fighter pilot in the United States Air Force. Among his notable posts were those commanding the Air Training Command, the Seventh Air Force during the Vietnam War, and the Tactical Air Command (TAC). During his tour in Southeast Asia, he was concurrently the deputy commander of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) for air operations and thus responsible for Operation Rolling Thunder, the air campaign against North Vietnam, which Momyer executed in the face of micromanagement from President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara.〔Boyne, "Momyer", pp. 64-65〕 Momyer was acknowledged in the Air Force community as "a true expert in tactical air warfare."〔 His predecessor as commander of TAC described him as difficult to work for or with because he was "much smarter than most people."〔 After his retirement in 1973, he spent five years researching and writing ''Airpower in Three Wars'', his treatise on airpower doctrine, strategy, and tactics.〔Boyne, "Momyer", p. 68〕 Momyer is a controversial figure historically for an incident of racial intolerance during World War II when as a fighter group commander he recommended that the 99th Fighter Squadron, a segregated African American unit then attached to his command, be removed from combat operations. The controversy reached the highest levels of the United States Army Air Forces, was widely reported in the American press, and resulted in an official study that exculpated the "Tuskegee Airmen." ==Early life== Momyer was born in 1916, the son of a lawyer in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He was 14 when his father died of a heart attack and he moved with his mother to Seattle, Washington,〔Megan McDonough, (Retired Air Force Gen. William W. Momyer dies at 95 ), ''The Washington Post'' (September 1, 2012). Retrieved 29 OCtober 2013〕 where he attended Broadway High School and graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Washington in 1937. His nickname within the service was "Spike".〔Boyne, "Momyer", p. 64〕 Momyer entered military service in 1938 as an aviation cadet in the Air Corps, and after successfully completing primary and basic pilot training at Randolph Field, moved on to the advanced training school at Kelly Field, Texas, graduating in February 1939. He received his commission as a second lieutenant and a rating of pilot, assigned to pilot and flight commander duties until February 1941, when be became military observer for air with the military attaché in Cairo, Egypt. In this capacity, he was technical advisor to the Royal Air Force in equipping the first squadrons of the Western Desert Air Force with Curtiss Tomahawk fighters, which enabled him to fly combat missions.〔〔Boyne, "Momyer", p. 65〕〔Boyne notes that one of the units with which Momyer flew was No. 112 Squadron RAF, the first unit to paint the "shark's teeth" markings associated with P-40s on its aircraft.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William W. Momyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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