Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Major General Clarence Leonard Tinker (21 November 1887–7 June 1942) (Osage) was a career United States Army officer, the highest ranking Native-American officer and the first to reach that rank. During World War II he had been assigned as Commander of Commander of the Seventh Air Force in Hawaii to reorganize the air defenses. He personally flew to lead a force during the Battle of Midway in June 1942; his plane went out of control and was lost in the ocean. He was the first general to be killed in WWII. Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is named in his honor.. }
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- Clarence_L._Tinker abstract "Major General Clarence Leonard Tinker (21 November 1887–7 June 1942) (Osage) was a career United States Army officer, the highest ranking Native-American officer and the first to reach that rank. During World War II he had been assigned as Commander of Commander of the Seventh Air Force in Hawaii to reorganize the air defenses. He personally flew to lead a force during the Battle of Midway in June 1942; his plane went out of control and was lost in the ocean. He was the first general to be killed in WWII. Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is named in his honor.".