Air commanders of World War I

Summary

The air commanders of World War I were army or navy officers who came to command air services during the first major conflict in which air power played a significant role.

Entente Powers air commanders edit

British Empire edit

Australian Flying Corps edit

Royal Flying Corps edit

Director-General of Military Aeronautics edit
General Officer Commanding the RFC in France edit
 
Major-General Hugh Trenchard

Royal Naval Air Service edit

Heads of the RNAS edit

Royal Air Force edit

Chief of the Air Staff edit

France edit

Director of Military Aeronautics edit

Head of the Service Aéronautique edit

Greece edit

Imperial Russia edit

Italy edit

Romania edit

General Inspector of Engineering and Aeronautics edit

  • 1913-1915 - General Mihail Boteanu[4]

Commander of the RAC edit

  • 1915-1916; 1918-1920 - Brigadier General Constantin Găvănescu[4][5][6]
  • 1916 - Major Gheorghe Rujinschi[5]
  • 1916-1918 - Major De Malherbe[7][8]

Director of the Aeronautics edit

  • 1916-1918 - Lieutenant-colonel François de Vergnette de Lamotte [fr][7]
  • 1918-1920 - Brigadier General Constantin Găvănescu[4][5]

United States edit

Chief of Air Service of the American Expeditionary Force in France edit

Air Commander, Zone of Advance on the American Expeditionary Force in France edit

Central Powers air commanders edit

Germany edit

Inspector of Flying Troops edit

  • Colonel Walter von Eberhardt, Inspector of Flying Troops (1913–1914)
  • Major Richard Roethe, Inspector of Flying Troops (1914–1916)
  • Major, later Lieutenant-Colonel Wilhelm Siegert, 2nd Staff Officer of Field Air Services (1915–1916), Inspector of Flying Troops (1916–1918)
  • Captain Wilhelm Haehnelt, Air Commander 5th Army (1915–1916), Air Commander 1st Army (1916–1918), Inspector of Flying Troops (1918–1919)

Austro-Hungarian Empire edit

Ottoman Empire edit

Bulgaria edit

References edit

  1. ^ "AIR POWER REVIEW Volume 12 Number 1" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
  2. ^ Harvey. Collision of Empires: Britain in Three World Wars, 1793–1945. p. 419
  3. ^ "Giovanni B. Marieni". Marieni-saredo.it. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  4. ^ a b c Valeriu Avram (2013). "Din Istoria Aripilor Românești 1910-1916" (PDF). Buletinul Arhivelor Militare Române (in Romanian). No. 61/2013. pp. 2–17.
  5. ^ a b c Războiul de întregire (1916-1919) Comandanți militari români (PDF) (in Romanian). Editura Centrului Tehnic-Editorial al Armatei. 2016. ISBN 978-606-524-176-3.
  6. ^ "Galeria comandantilor". RoAF (in Romanian).
  7. ^ a b Mihail Orzeață; Valeriu Avram (2018). "Romanian Aviation in the First World War" (PDF). Romanian Military Thinking (3): 206–231.
  8. ^ "Istoric". RoAF (in Romanian).