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completion of Training in October 1944 flew his group to Biak in S.W.P. to join the 5th Air Force. At end of hostilities he became the 1st Base Commander. At end of hostilities he became the 1st Base Commander, Jokada AFB, Japan and later commanded Tachikowa AFB. He returned to the states in May 1947 to join the field office of the Inspector General, Hq, USAF with station at Langley Field. He was the Air Inspector, 1st Inspector Generals Region at Langley when ordered to the Air War College. His proposed assignment is DCS/P&O, Hq, USAF. Bill is a bachelor and his hobbies are golf, bowling, hunting and more golf.

ROBERTS H. BILLINGSLEY, LT. COLONEL, TC, USA, 0-30608

"Bob" was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 22, 1910. His family moved to southern New Jersey in 1913 and he grew up there, attending the public schools in Merchantville and Camden, New Jersey. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and New York University and moved to New York City in 1935 where he lived and was engaged in business until he entered active military service in 1940. In 1932 he had enlisted in the New Jersey National Guard and was commissioned a second lieutenant of Field Artillery in the New Jersey Guard in 1937. He came to duty with his National Guard Division in 1940 and served successively as a battery commander and battalion staff officer with artillery units until December of 1942. Earlier that year he had joined the 96th Infantry Division and attended the 10th General Staff Class at the Command and General Staff School. He was detailed to the G-4 Section of his division and served there as Assistant G-4 until March 1945 with time out for a trip to Italy in 1943-44 as a War Department observer, and a session in a hospital in New Guinea in 1944-45. In March 1945 he became Transport Quartermaster of his Division and in August of that year became TQM of the Sixth Army for their move to Japan. Integrated into the Regular Army in 1946 he attended the Command and General Staff College and taught for two years at the Transportation School before coming to Maxwell. After AWC he expects to go to the faculty of the Air Command and Staff School as Transportation Instructor. His wife, Grada, (G.I.) is from Bradford, Pennsylvania. 

G. NOEL BLAKE, WING COMMANDER, RAF, 31205

"Noel" was born in Cannonbury (Cannon Brewery), London, April 9th, 1914. 1931-35 attended University College, University of London, whence he obtained BS (Economics). After three years in the textile trade in Manchester, he joined the RAF (Equipment Branch) in January 1939. 1939-41, Station Equipment Officer, as Pilot Officer and Flt. Lieutenant, at Wattisham near Ipswich in Suffolk. 1941-45, at Air Ministry, both in Harrogate (Yorkshire) and London, as Squadron Leader and Wing Commander. Engaged in the procurement and supply of radar, radio, and RCM. Member of the London Munitions Assignments Board on American Equipment. His active service therefore consisted mainly in watching V.I.'s and listening to V.2's. 1945, posted i/c equipment administration with "Tiger Force" (the intended British 

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