Brereton, Lewis Hyde, born on 21-06-1890 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, was a military aviation pioneer and Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force
. A 1911 graduate of the United States Naval Academy
, he began his military career as a United States Army officer in the Coast Artillery Corps
prior to World War I, but spent the remainder of his service as a career aviator. He went overseas in October 1917 and the following March was placed in command of the 12th Aero Squadron
, one of the first American flying units on the front. During this time he carried out extensive operations in both the Toul and Luneville sectors. After the armistice, he was appointed Chief of Staff, Third Army Air Service, under Pershing, Pershing died on 15-11-1948, on 19-11-1918,








Upon the outbreak of World War II, he commanded the Far East Air Force. In October 1943, he relinquished this command serving thereafter as Commanding General of the Ninth Air Force
in the European theater. Brereton was promoted to Lieutenant General in April 1944, as his units began a campaign of planned attacks against airfields, railway centers and rolling stock, coastal batteries, and bridges in France preparatory
to Operation Overlord
, the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, under Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower.













Death and burial ground of Brereton, Lewis Hyde.
Lieutenant General Lewis Brereton died at the age of 76, on 01-08-1967 of a heart attack in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C..








