Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. GENERALS WHITE AND LEMAY TAKE OATH OF OFFICE

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Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. GENERALS WHITE AND LEMAY TAKE OATH OF OFFICE

1957

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Summary: SLATE: 1 JULY 57. PENTAGON, D.C. GEN. WHITE AND LEMAY OATH OF OFFICE. CAMERAMAN: RHODES. 5': MS FV Gen. Curtis LeMay, Secretary of AF James Douglas, Gen. Thomas White, and Gen. Nathan Twining, outgoing Chief of Staff, USAF, standing on stage after the swearing-in ceremony for Gen. White as Chief of Staff USAF and Gen. LeMay as Vice Chief of Staff -- Gen. Twining exits scene at right. 12': MSs FV four men standing in a semicircle on the stage -- Gen. LeMay and Gen. Twining shake hands. 29': MS FV four men standing, Secretary Douglas speaking. 45': Two MCUs Maj. Gen. Reginald T. Harmon, Judge Advocate General, administering the oath of office to Gen. White -- Secretary Douglas standing in bg. 70': Two MCUs Maj. Gen. Harmon administering oath of office to Gen. LeMay -- Secretary Douglas in bg. 94': MCU Secretary Douglas talking to Gen. LeMay. 105': MLS FV from L to R: Maj. Gen. Charles I. Carpenter, Chief of USAF Chaplains; Gen. LeMay; Gen. White; Sec. Douglas; Maj. Gen. Harmon; Mrs. White; Gen. Twining; and Mrs. Curtis LeMay standing as Gen. Carpenter delivers invocation -- audience in fg. 111': MLS FV L to R: Maj. Gen. Carpenter, Col. James L. Tarr, Air Adjutant General; Gen. LeMay, Gen. White, Sec. Douglas, Maj. Gen. Harmon, Mrs. White, Gen. Twining, and Mrs. LeMay standing -- Gen. White and Maj. Gen. Harmon step forward facing each other, audience in fg. 129': Repeat same scene descriptions as oath of office is administered to Gen. White, then to Gen. LeMay. 178': MLS Gen. LeMay shakes hands with Sec. Douglas, then steps back into line. 194': MLS FV of the group standing, then dispersing. 208': Total footage in reel. Fair-Good

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LeMay, Curtis E. (Curtis Emerson), 1906-1990

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Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was an American Air Force general who implemented an effective but controversial strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of World War II. He later served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force from 1961 to 1965. LeMay joined the U.S. Army Air Corps, the precursor to the U.S. Air Force, in 1929 while studying civil engineering at Ohio State University. He had risen to the rank of major by the time of Japan's Attack on Pearl ...

Twining, Nathan F. (Nathan Farragut), 1897-1982

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Air Force officer. From the description of Reminiscences of Nathan Farragut Twining: oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419971 U.S. Army and Air Force officer; later, publishing company executive. From the description of Papers of Nathan F. Twining, 1924-1960 (bulk 1950-1960). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81804920 Nathan Twining's military career began in 1916 as a member of the Third Oregon Infant...

White, Thomas D. (Thomas Dresser), 1901-1965

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Thomas Dresser White (b. Aug. 6, 1901, Walker, Minn.-d. Dec. 22, 1965), U.S. Air Force officer, received his commission in the infantry in 1920. He studied the Chinese language in China from 1927 to 1931, and served as assistant military attaché for air in Moscow and Rome from 1934 to 1937 and military attaché in Brazil from 1940 to 1942. During World War II he served as assistant chief of staff, then chief of staff, 3rd Air Force; assistant chief of staff for intelligence at Army Air Force HQ; ...

Carpenter, Charles I., 1906-1994

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Air Force officer, chaplain. From the description of Reminiscences of Charles I. Carpenter : oral history, 1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309725643 ...

Douglas, James H. (James Henderson), 1899-1988

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James Henderson Douglas, Jr. (1899-1988) was Assistant Secretary of Treasury from 1932 to 1933, Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1953 to 1957, Secretary of the Air Force from 1957 to 1959, and Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1959 to 1961. From the description of Douglas, James H. (James Henderson), 1899-1988 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10570513 James Henderson Douglas, Jr. was born in Iowa in 1899 and graduated from Princeton University i...

Harmon, Reginald Carl, 1900-1992

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Reginald Carl Harmon (b. 1900, Olney, Ill.-d. Oct. 19, 1992), U.S. Air Force officer, began his military career in the ROTC at the University of Illinois, received his commission in 1926, and finished law school the following year. He was called to active duty in 1940, and through the war years was in charge of the legal representation of the U.S. government in the industrial expansion program to meet the needs of the Army Air Corps. In 1948 the President of the U.S. appointed him as the first j...