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Millard Fillmore Harmon Jr. (January 19, 1888 – February 26, 1945) was a lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaign in World War II. He was presumed to have perished in February 1945 on a flight when the plane carrying him disappeared in transit.
On Jan. 26, 1942, he became Chief of the Air Staff, Army Air Forces. With 30 years combat and command experience as a ground and air officer, General Harmon was well qualified to command Army Forces in an area of increasing strategic importance where air power was to play a dominant role.
Lt. General Millard F. Harmon. U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF) Commander of SOPAC and AAFPOA. Passenger C-87A Liberator Express 41-24174 MIA February 26, 1945. Background. Millard Fillmore Harmon, Jr. was born on January 19, 1888 in at Fort Mason near San Francisco in California. Nicknamed “Miff”.
Millard F. Harmon (1888-1945) was a senior American airman of the Second World War who spent most of the war serving in the Pacific, taking part in the fighting in the Solomon Islands before holding a number of overlapping and sometimes contradictory positions under Nimitz in the central Pacific.
A General Airman: Millard Harmon and the South Pacific in World War II. Descriptive Note: Journal article. Corporate Author: NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES. Personal Author (s): Hughes, Thomas A. Report Date: 2009-01-01. Pagination or Media Count: 8.0. Abstract:
Millard Harmon graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1912. He was missing in action late in World War II when his staff airplane went missing at...
One such officer was Lieu-tenant General Millard F. “Miff” Harmon, the senior Army Air Forces officer serving in an Army—not an air forces—billet during World War II, whose service has hidden in the shadows for far too long.
