Major General Walter R. Agee.(United States Air Force)(Biography)

MAJOR GENERAL WALTER R. AGEE

Retired April 30, 1959. Died Jan. 16, 1980.

Walter Robertson Agee was born in Silver City, N.M., in 1905. In 1923 he graduated from New Mexico State Teachers College High School in Silver City and in 1925 graduated from New Mexico Military Institute. Roswell, N.M.

Entering Flying school in Texas, he was commissioned at Kelly Field, Texas in 1928. Today he is a command pilot, a celestial navigator, and a combat observer with close to 6,000 flying hours.

Second Lieutenant Agee's early assignments included Armament Officers School and Navigation School. Later he served in various squadron assignments in Texas, Virginia, California, and the Philippines, and prior to World War II served as a flight commander and squadron commander in Hickam Field, Hawaii.

Graduating from the Air Corps Tactical School, Maxwell Field, Ala., in 1940, Captain Agee served as a Group S-4, 7th Bomb Group at Hamilton Field, Calif., and moved with the Group to Fort Douglas, Utah. He then was wing executive Officer, 20th Bomb Wing (Heavy) at Fort Douglas and moved from there to Fort George Wright, Wash., where he became executive and operations officer for the II Bomber Command. In 1942 he became assistant chief of staff operations, then the deputy chief of staff of the Headquarters 2nd Air Force in Spokane, Wash., and later the commander of the 16th Bomb ...