Victor Herbert Strahm [SEP] conflict
Victor Herbert Strahm
Major (later Brigadier General) Victor Herbert Strahm (26 October 1895 – 11 May 1957) began his career as a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories. In his 36-year career, he served as chief test pilot for the United States Army Air Forces while en route to higher command.
During World War II, Strahm was deputy commander of the Ninth Air Force. He was promoted to deputy commander of the 33rd Air Division at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City and commander
two anecdotes. 
- In 1943, a Bowling Green, Ky., newspaper reported, "'half the town called a halt to usual Sunday afternoon pleasures' to tune in to the 'Army Hour' radio program and listen to one of their own, Brig. Gen. Victor Herbert Strahm, detail an important low-level bombing attack..."
- In 1944, 1st Lt. John Markowitz of Cartaret, N.J., gave his first-hand account of leading an assault on a German-held fort. A