GENERAL GEORGE G. FINCH, LAMBDA, TACKLES TOUGH JOB IN WASHINGTON by WILLIAM K. WYANT, JR., The Atlanta Journal Bureau
DEEP in the labyrinthine Pentagon At! Building in Washington is a n lik anta major general who would t' e to get back home to his law praci~ceW, but has a tough job to finish ashington first. Be is Major General George G. Lambda, 46-year-old veteran world wars. His job, a new 0 nn~. created last fall , is to help get the a •on's air national guard organized 0 n an effective basis. th If You visit his offices at 2E314 in fir~/e~tagon - that 's second floor , r nng, and 314th office in th e teat military pagoda - you will find Beneral Finch busy and enthusiastic. h ut you will also find he does not \V~vtef " Potomac fever ." He speaks •s ully of home. b Before his appointment last Octo~s chief of the Air Force division, Fiattonal Guard Bureau, General F·nhh commanded the Fifty-fourth s~g ter Wing and had authority over !\fal~er _units scattered over Alabama, l.• •sstsstppi F l o r i d a Tennessee ' ' 1 Ja~"~Otth G . Carolina, South Carolina, and' • eorg 1a. mes, 1'h sa e defense establishment did not at t/ Why General Finch was chosen gr handle the Air National Guard proteam on a nation-wide basis, but one , ar Fi~~on may hav.e been th~t Geor~ia's asur h Y-fourth Fighter Wmg, w 1 t h Mel' \Veadquarters at Marietta Air base, Ruffl fu~f the first in the nation to get itself ardsU o~ganized after the war. go llttng office hours at the Pentatb n, General Finch daily fights si~ough a seemingly endless succesan~ of telephone calls, conferences th Paper work. He was active in ded in: ~hy li~t to save wester.n cattle dur1 fouJl'is t0 e wmter. The maJor goal now foUJl' fro Up the National Guard's strength Scbot tot~ the present 41,000 to a desired Mull~ era~ F~f 58,000. " Our office," Gended 111un· Inch says, "is a channel of com\ou~ and ~hation between the Air Force Schot G e States." :ion ing eneral Finch is a pilot. After mak) a busy week of it in Washington,
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he often gets in his fl ying time by pushing an A-26 or C-47 to Atlanta for the week end. At other times he makes inspection trips elsewhere. His home is at 5051 Northside Dr., N. W., Atlanta. He and Mrs. Finch have one son, George Finch, Jr. Born in Dade County, Fla., April 11, 1902, Brother Finch went to Atlanta at an early age and attended Tech high school. He was graduated
in law at the University of Georgia. In 191 8 he enlisted in the Air Corps. World War II found Brother Finch overseas in 1942, attending the British Middle East command and staff school at Haifa, Palestine. He was later operations officer of the Desert Air Task Force. In 1943 , he returned to the United States and commanded air bases in Tennessee, Florida and Georgia. 3