William Evans Hall

Who was William Evans Hall?

William Evans "Bill" Hall was an American military officer, retired with the rank of Lieutenant general in the United States Air Force.

Hall attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and graduated from the Advanced Flying School at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas. He served actively during World War II, first as Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Headquarters U.S. Army Air Forces and later as Deputy Commander of the 15th Air Force in Bari, Italy. After the war he was placed in charge of the United States Continental Air Command, an organization of more than 15,000 military personnel and over 8,000 civilian employees, and served as Senior Member and Air Force Representative to the United Nations Military Staff Committee in New York.

He married photojournalist Marguerite Higgins in 1952, with whom he had three children, two of whom survived.