sentences:  Quesada commanded the IX Tactical Air Command in France.Strickland, Hoyt, and Hopkins all became brigadier generals in the United States Air Force and the "Brigadier General Ross G. Hoyt Award" is issued annually for the best air refueling crew in the Air Force.Halverson, though he rose only to colonel, led the HAL-PRO ("Halverson Project") detachment, 12 Consolidated B-24 Liberators that bombed the Ploiești oil refineries in 1942, and became the first commander of the Tenth Air Force.