Kenneth Newton Walker (July 17, 1898 – January 5, 1943) was a United States Army aviator and a United States Army Air Forces general who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II. Walker joined the United States Army after the United States entered World War I in 1917. He trained as an aviator and became a flying instructor. After the war, he received a commission in the regular Army.
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- Kenneth Newton Walker (July 17, 1898 – January 5, 1943) was a United States Army aviator and a United States Army Air Forces general who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II. Walker joined the United States Army after the United States entered World War I in 1917. He trained as an aviator and became a flying instructor. After the war, he received a commission in the regular Army. He served overseas in the Philippines and Hawaii, eventually graduating from the Air Corps Tactical School and then serving as an instructor there. He supported the creation of a separate air organization, not subordinate to other military branches. He was also a forceful advocate of the efficacy of strategic bombardment, publishing articles on the subject. Shortly before the United States entered World War II, Walker was one of four officers in the Air War Plans Division, which was tasked with developing a production requirements plan for the war in the air. Together, they created the AWPD-1 plan, a blueprint for the imminent air war against Germany. The plan called for the creation of an enormous air force to beat Germany through strategic bombardment. In 1942, Walker was promoted to brigadier general and transferred to the Southwest Pacific, where he became Commanding General, V Bomber Command, Fifth Air Force. Walker frequently flew dangerous combat missions over New Guinea. On 5 January 1943, he was shot down during a bombing raid over Rabaul.
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