Frank Robert Miller - Summary of Career

Summary of Career

  • 1925 - 1931: Member of the Canadian Officer Training Corps
  • 15 September 1931: Commissioned as a Pilot Officer in the RCAF
  • October 1931: Posted to No. 1 Squadron, Camp Borden, Ontario
  • December 1931: Received pilot's wings after initial flight training.
  • 16 December 1931: Promoted to Flying Officer
  • July 1932 - January 1933: Served at Air Force HQ in Ottawa
  • January–July 1933: Continued training at Camp Borden and in Ottawa
  • July 1933: Seaplane Conversion Course at RCAF Ottawa (Rockcliffe)
  • August - December 1933: Squadron Armament Officers’ Course at the Air Armament and Bomber School, Camp Borden
  • January 1934 - 1935: Pilot and unit adjutant, No. 4 Flying Boat Squadron, RCAF Station Vancouver
  • April 1935: Completed Air Pilotage Course
  • June 1935: Completed Flying Instruction Course
  • 1935 - 1937: Air and navigation instructor, Flying Training School, Camp Borden
  • 1 April 1937: Promoted to Flight Lieutenant
  • May 1937 - September 1938: Served at Air Navigation and Seaplane School, Trenton
  • September 1938 - September 1939: At the School of Air Navigation, RAF Manston, to attend the Specialist Air Navigation Course.
  • 1 April 1939: Promoted to Squadron Leader
  • September 1939: Officer Commanding of the Air Navigation and Reconnaissance School,Trenton
  • December 1940: Promoted to Acting Wing Commander
  • June 1941: OC of No. 2 ANS, Pennfield Ridge, New Brunswick
  • May 1942: OC of No. 1 Central Navigation School, Rivers
  • July 1942: Promoted to Acting Group Captain; appointed Commanding Officer, No. 1 General Reconnaissance School (GRS), Sunnyside, Prince Edward Island
  • January 1943: Promoted to Acting Air Commodore; appointed Director of Training Plans and Requirements, AF HQ, Ottawa
  • April 1944: Posted to No. 6 (RCAF) Group Headquarters, Allerton Hall, Yorkshire, England, in the rank of Group Captain.
  • June 1944: Appointed CO of RCAF Station Skipton-on-Swale
  • 14 October 1944: Promoted to substantive Air Commodore; appointed CO of No. 61 Base, Topcliffe
  • November 1944: CO, RCAF Base No. 76
  • January 1945: Appointed CO of RCAF Base No. 63, Leeming, Yorkshire, England
  • July 1945: Deputy Commander of RCAF Tiger Force (never established due to Japanese surrender on 15 August)
  • Late 1945: Chief Staff Officer, Air Materiel Command
  • June 1946: AOC, Air Materiel Command
  • August 1948: US National War College
  • September 1949: AFHQ, Air Member - Operations and Training
  • September 1951: Appointed Vice Chief of the Air Staff (Air Vice-Marshal)
  • 1954: Vice-Deputy Air, SHAPE
  • 1955: Promoted to Air Marshal
  • Appointed Deputy Minister of Defence
  • 1957: Command Deputy Commander-in-Chief (DCINC), NORAD
  • 1960: Chair, COSC
  • 1 September 1961: Promoted to Air Chief Marshal
  • August 1964: Appointed first Chief of the Defence Staff
  • 1966: Retired

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