Bennett Meyers

Bennett Edward Meyers (29 March 1895 – 25 February 1979) was a United States Air Force (USAF) major general who commanded the Air Materiel Command and the Air Technical Service Command during World War II. He was dismissed from the service on 16 July 1948 after being convicted of perjury.

Biography Bennett Edward Meyers was born in Buffalo, New York, on 29 March 1895. In World War I he enlisted in the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps Reserve on 2 February 1918 as a flying cadet. He completed ground school at Berkeley, California, and flying school at Rockwell Field, California, and was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant in the United States Army Air Service on 22 June 1918. On 1 July 1920, he accepted a Regular Army commission as a second lieutenant in the Air Service.

As the second in command for procurement in the USAAF, he had overseen $60 billion in government contracts (equivalent to $ billion in ). Under oath before the committee on 17 November 1947, Meyers testified that Lamarre's wife Mildred had also been his mistress for eight years. She filed a slander suit against him. In March 1948, Meyers was convicted on three counts of perjury and sentenced to twenty months to five years in prison. The conviction was upheld on appeal in June 1948. Bleriot Lamarre received two years' probation. Meyers was court martialed. His military decorations were revoked on 24 November 1947, and he was dismissed from the service of the United States by President Harry S. Truman on 16 July 1948.

Meyers died on 25 February 1979.