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THURSDAY. JULY 26. 1956
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
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Southern Pines Man Is New Deputy
Commander Of Eighth Air Force
Brigadier General William P.
Fisher of Southern Pines has
been appointed deputy command
er of the Strategic Air Command’s
Eighth Air Force at Westover Air
Force Base, Mass. He will assume
his new post August 7.
Since 1953, when he returned
from Korea, General Fisher has
been on duty with SAC headquar
ters at Offutt Air Force Base,
Omaha, Nebr. He served two
years as Inspector General for
SAC commander in chief. General
Curtis E. LeMay, and then was
named commander of the 1st Air
Division when it was activated at
Offutt. He is presently assistant
director of SAC operations.
General Fisher attended high
school in Southern Pines and in
1934 was graduated from North
Carolina State College. He entered
the army as a flying cadet and
completed flying training at Kelly
Field, Texas, in 1935.
He served with the 9th Bomb
Group until 1940 when he was
transferred to Wheeler Field, Ha
waii as commander of the 78th
Pursuit Squadron. In May, 1941,
he became assistant operations of
ficer of the Hawaiian Air Force;
in September he participated in
the history-making flight of nine
B-17s from Hawaii to the Philip
pine Islands.
When the Pacific war started in
December he was commanding the
28th Bomb. Sq. of the famed 19th
Bomb Group at Clark Field in the
Philippines and was wounded dur
ing the first bombing attack
against the field on December 7.
General Fisher moved the
squadron in January, 1942, from
Bataan to the Island of Mindanao
in the Southern Philippines where
it was converted to infantry and
fought for more than two months
against the Japanese army before
being overwhelmed. In February,
1942, General Fisher was flown to
the Island of Java and appointed
commander of all allied fighters in
East Java. When Java fell in
March he was evacuated to Aus
tralia and then returned to the
United States in April.
In October, 1943, he returned
overseas to China where he com
manded the 308th Bomb Group
under Major General Clair Chen-
nault of Flying Tiger fame.
He returned to the U. S. in Oc
tober, 1944, and was assigned to
Headquarters USAF, as deputy to
General Lauris Norstad, then
chief of staff of the 20th Air Force.
He served in various capacities on
the air staff until September, 1947,
when he entered the Air War
College at Maxwell Field, Mont
gomery, Ala.
Following several command as
signments General Fisher became
commander in October, 1952, of
the Far East Air Force Bomber
Command which included three
wings of B-29s operating from Ja
pan against targets In North Ko
rea. He was reassigned to the
states and SAC headquarters on
July 17, 1953.
General Fisher’s decorations in
clude the Distinguished Flying
Cross for the 1941 B-17 flight from
Hawaii to the Philippines; the
Purple Heart, one oak leaf cluster
to the DFC, the Legion of Merit
and one oak leaf cluster, the Air
Medal, and the Distinguished Ser
vice Medal.
He is rated a command pilot
and command observer and has
more than 5,000 flying hours. Dur
ing World War 2 he flew 53 com
bat missions.
General Fisher is married to the
former Dorothy Douglas of Scran
ton, Penn. They have two chil
dren, Douglas and Ann.
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