Bidspirit auction | MAJOR GEN. CALEB VANCE HAYNES

MAJOR GEN. CALEB VANCE HAYNES WARTIME PASSPORT - CALEB VANCE HAYNES (1895-1966) U.S. Air Force major general and one of the most important and talented military aviators and commanders of World War II. Haynes organized the Assam-Burma-China Ferry Command and evacuated Burma with the Chinese and RAF. He then went to China to organize and command the Bomber Command of the China Air Task Force under Gen. Claire Chennault. He later returned to India to organize the India Air Task Force of the 10th Air Force. An important war-date items from Haynes' career, his ”Special Passport” issued June 30, 1941 indicating his travel ”...to the British Isles and Ireland on Official Business for the War Department...” The passport has visa entries from all of Haynes' overseas postings and points in between including China, India, Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Prestwick, Egypt, Brazil, Portugal, and many Commonwealth countries. Canceled by the cutting of page corners and stamps on each page.