Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. AFNR 343
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Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...
Briggs, James E. (James Elbert), 1906-1979
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James Elbert Briggs (1906-1979) was born in Rochester, New York, the son of Bendsmin Robert and Marion Cypert Briggs. He entered the New York Military Academy in 1920 and, as an honor graduate, in 1924 received a presidential appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. He was "cadet first captain" (regimental commander) his last year at West Point and graduated 31st in a class of 261 in 1928. He was commissioned a second lieutenant of Field Artillery. Briggs'' first assignment was to the Sixth Fie...
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...
Atkinson, Joseph H. (Joseph Hampton), 1900-1984
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Air Force officer. From the description of Reminiscences of Joseph Hampton Atkinson : oral history, 1960. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122512674 Joseph Hampton Atkinson (1900-1984) was born in Dublin, Texas. He served his entire career in the United States Air Force, including posts as commander of bombardment groups during World War II. After World War II, he served as commanding general of the Alaskan Air Command from 1946 to 1949, and...
Sullivan, H. R. (Henry Riggs), 1915-1992
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Henry Riggs Sullivan (b. 1915, Ky.-d. Mar. 7, 1992), U.S. Air Force officer, graduated from West Point in 1939 and received his pilot wings the following year. At the squadron level, he served as pilot, engineering officer, adjutant, and operations officer during World War II. He was a B-29 squadron commander and group commander in the 20th Air Force first in India-China and later in the Marianna Islands. At the end of the War he was director of tactics, 21st Bomber Command, 20th Air Force. In 1...
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; ...
