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The Walker papers

.Brig Gen Kenneth Newton Walker Kenneth Walker enlisted at Denver, Colorado, on 15 December 1917. He took flying training at Mather Field, California, getting his commission and wings in November 1918. After a tour in the Philippines, he returned to Langley Field, Virginia, in February 1925 with a subsequent assignment in December 1928 to attend the Air Corps Tactical School. Retained on the faculty as a bombardment instructor, | The Limits of Friendship us Security Cooperation IN CENTRA Asia Michael J. McCarthy Lieutenant Colonel USAF 9 Brig Gen Kenneth Newton Walker Kenneth Walker enlisted at Denver Colorado on 15 December 1917. He took flying training at Mather Field California getting his commission and wings in November 1918. After a tour in the Philippines he returned to Langley Field Virginia in February 1925 with a subsequent assignment in December 1928 to attend the Air Corps Tactical School. Retained on the faculty as a bombardment instructor Walker became the epitome of the strategic thinkers at the school and coined the revolutionary airpower creed of the bomber A well-planned well-organized and well-flown air force attack will constitute an offensive that cannot be stopped. Following attendance at the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth Kansas in 1933 and promotion to major he served for three years at Hamilton Field California and another three years at Luke Field Ford Island and Wheeler Field Hawaii. Walker returned to the United States in January 1941 as assistant chief of the Plans Division for the chief of the Air Corps in Washington DC. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in July 1941 and colonel in March 1942. During this time when he worked in the Operations Division of the War Department General Staff he coauthored the air-campaign strategy known as Air War Plans Division Plan 1 the plan for organizing equipping deploying and employing the Army Air Forces to defeat Germany and Japan should the United States become embroiled in war. The authors completed this monumental undertaking in less than one month just before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States was in fact at war. In June 1942 he was promoted to brigadier general and assigned by Gen George Kenney as commander of Fifth Air Force s Bomber Command. In this capacity he repeatedly accompanied his B-24 and B-17 units on bombing missions deep into enemy-held territory. Learning firsthand