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Millard Harmon

Millard Fillmore Harmon, Jr.
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Nickname(s) Miff
Born (1888-01-19)January 19, 1888
Fort Mason, California, United States
Died February 26, 1945(1945-02-26) (aged 57)
Marshall Islands
Allegiance United States United States of America
Service/branch US Army Air Corps Hap Arnold Wings.svg United States Army Air Forces
Years of service 1912–1945
Rank US-O9 insignia.svg Lieutenant General
Commands held 20th Pursuit Group
5th Composite Group
Second Air Force
Air Force Combat Command
US Army Forces in the South Pacific Area
Army Forces South Pacific Area
Army Air Forces Pacific Area
Battles/wars World War I
World War II
*Pacific Campaign
Awards Army Distinguished Service Medal
Navy Distinguished Service Medal
Croix de Guerre

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. Harmon, Frank Maxwell Andrews, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Lesley J. McNair, all lieutenant generals at the time of their deaths, were the highest-ranking Americans to die in World War II.

He was born in 1888 at Fort Mason, California. He was from a military family; his father Millard F. Harmon. Sr. was a colonel, one brother, Hubert R. Harmon, a lieutenant general and another, Kenneth B. Harmon, a colonel. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1912 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry, serving with the 28th and 9th Infantry Regiments. In 1914 he was ordered to the Philippines, and two years later detailed to the newly organized Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps. That year he accompanied the Mexican Punitive Expedition and did aerial patrol work along the border.

Two weeks before the United States entered World War I, Harmon, then a first lieutenant, was on his way to France. There he attended aviation schools in Paris, served at Allied and American headquarters, and was finally attached to the French 13th Group de Combat as a pilot during the Somme defensive, for which he was awarded the Croix de Guerre.


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