Ninth Air Force Commanders with Allied Officers
Colonel Laughlin poses with other U.S. commanders from the Ninth Air Force as well as officers with the Allied Forces
According to the caption on the back, the bottom row, from left to right, is Lt. Col. Paul P. Douglas, Col. Russ Berg, Col. Joseph Laughlin, Col. Edwin S. Chickering, and an unknown commander. On the top, General Otto Weyland is top left and Brigadier General Richard Sanders is #3 or #4 from the left. The rest are unknown.
National Museum of the United States Air Force - Research Division
United States Air Force
General Otto Weyland and Colonel Joseph Laughlin Stand in Front of a Luftwaffe Plane
Colonel Laughlin, as Commander of the 362nd Fighter Group, reported directly to the Commander of the XIX Tactical Air Command (TAC), General Otto Weyland, under the auspices of the Ninth Air Force
Colonel Laughlin and General Weyland stand in front of a surrendered German Luftwaffe airplane, a Focke-Wulf (FW) 190 at the Frankfort Rhein Main Air Base in Germany. The plane had been flown in by the German Luftwaffe Commander to be surrendered to the 362nd Fighter Group in response to their overwhelming destruction of German planes on the ground and in the air in the month of April. General Weyland made the trip to share in the successes of his XIX TAC, 362nd Fighter Group.
National Museum of the United States Air Force - Research Division
United States Air Force
April 1945
A Surrendered German Officer's Pistol and Memorandum of Presentation
Colonel Joseph Laughlin received a pistol from a German Officer after nearly 20,000 troops surrendered
The XIX Tactical Air Command (TAC) were very effective in their missions to bomb and disrupt the German lines, especially the P-47s in the 362nd Fighter Group. Upon the surrender of German troops at the Beaugency Bridge in France, officers handed over their pistols in capitulation. In recognition of his groups' successes, General Otto Weyland had one of the officer's pistols sent to Colonel Laughlin.
United States Army Air Corps
Fabryka Broni
September 23, 1944
1930s