Adler, Elmer Edward.

Adler, Elmer Edward, born 30-01-1892 in Buffalo, New York the son of  Charles William Adler and Caroline Frommholtz, attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.,

  from 03-03-1910 to 15-02-1913. Commissioned a second lieutenant of Infantry in the New York National Guard 06-1-2-1915, Elmer was promoted to first lieutenant 22-04-1916, serving with the 65^th Infantry and 3^rd Field Artillery. He became a captain in the New York National Guard 25-07-1916, and resigned 23-08-1916. Accepting a temporary commission in the Air Service as a first lieutenant 22-07-1918, he was promoted to captain 24-09-1918, and commissioned a captain in the Air Service, Regular Army, 01-07-1920. He served at Buffalo, N.Y., and then on border patrol duty until the completion of the Mexican Border Crisis, and through the first period of the first World War. Going to Washington, D.C., in July 1918, a short time later he was assigned to Kelly Field, Texas as executive officer of the Air Service Mechanics School. Assigned to the Office of the Chief of Air Service in Washington, D.C., in January 1921, General Adler became chief of the Property Maintenance and Cost, Compilation Section for the Office of the Chief of the Air Service, with station in Fairfield, Ohio, in August 1921, and in July 1923 was named chief of the Field Service Section of the Air Corps.

Transferred to the Philippine Islands late in 1925, General Adler was assigned to Camp Nichols, assuming command of the Philippine Air Depot there in February 1926. He became commanding officer of the Kindley Field, Fort Mills, Philippine Islands, in March 1927, remaining in the Philippines until May 1928 as special assistant to the military attack in Japan, surveying the Japanese Army Air Corps. Reassigned to Washington D.C., General Adler became a member of the Materiel Liaison Section in the Office of the Chief of Air Corps. He was named chief of the Procurement and Transportation Branch in November 1928, and transferred to the Plans Division there in July 1930. A year later he entered the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Alabama, graduated in June 1932; graduated from the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in June 1934; and graduated from the Army War College at Washington D.C. in June 1935. General Adler was assigned to Hamilton Field, California, in August 1938, as group executive officer. He assumed command of the Seventh Bomb Group the following November. In January 1939 he enrolled in the Naval Operations Course at the Air Corps Tactical School Maxwell Field, Alabama, and after completion proceeded to Hamilton Field as executive officer in base headquarters. He assumed command of the Ninth Bomb Squadron in September 1939. Transferred to Fort Douglas, Utah, in February 1941, he served with 20^th Bomb Wing headquarters , under Brigade General, Walter Hale. “Frank”  , Frank died 30-03-1968 age 81..

Elmer becoming group commander of the 39^th Bomb Group (Heavy) in March 1941. That May he became chief of staff of the Provisional Air Corps Maintenance Command at Patterson Field, Ohio, which was later designated the Air Service Command. Going to the North African Mission in November 1941, General Adler was appointed Chief of the Air Section and chief representative of the Commanding General, U.S. Army Air Forces in Africa, Middle East, and India. Upon organization of the Tenth Air Force in China-Burma-India, he was transferred there as commanding general of the Air Service Command, and in June 1942 went to the Middle East as Commanding General of the Air Service Command, Ninth Air Force  under General Lieutenant Lewis Brereton. here with the Commander of the  Allied Forces Ike Eisenhower.

He also was assigned as chief of the American Section of an Anglo-American Air Mission which spent two months in Russia. Recalled to the United States in January 1943, General Adler was appointed chief of the Personnel and Training Division, Headquarters, Air Service Command, at Patterson Field, Ohio. In October 1944 he became chief of management control, Army Transport Command, at Wright Field, Ohio.

Death and burial ground of Adler, Elmer Edward.

Shirley Temple visits General Elmer Edward Adler Shirley Jane Temple

 (Santa Monica, 23-4-1928 – Woodside, 10-02-2014) was an American child star, actress, and diplomat.She became known as a child star. The girl with the golden blonde curls and sparkling eyes is one of the most famous child stars in film history. Shirley appeared in more than fifty American feature films between 1932 and 1949. As Shirley Temple Black, she built a career as an ambassador as an adult. She remains the youngest ever winner of an Academy Juvenile Award. On 04-08-2005 her second husband passed away at the age of 86. Temple passed away at home in Woodside, California on 10-02-2014, aged over 85, of a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)..

Elmer Adler died at the age 78, on 13-08-1970 and is buried on the Fort Sam Houston Cemetery, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, Section V.

 

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