Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. PRESS CONFERENCE UPON ARRIVAL OF DISCOVERER XIII CAPSULE ANDREWS AFB, MARYLAND, 11 AND 14 AUGUST 1960

Curtin, Richard D. (Richard Daniel), 1915-

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Richard Daniel Curtin was born in Tauton, Massachusetts, in 1915, and entered Brown University in 1933. In 1935, he received a Senatorial appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He graduated in 1939 with a Bachelor of Science degree, and received his first commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Coast Artillery. Curtin served in antiaircraft training roles at U.S. Army bases in New York and in the Canal Zone, defending U.S. territory and interests with the Pan...

Schriever, Bernard A., 1917-2005

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General Bernard Adolph Schriever (1910-2005) was born in Bremen, Germany, in 1910. Schriever is known for overseeing the U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program, which ushered the Pentagon and U.S. government into the space age. From the description of Schriever, Bernard A. (Bernard Adolph), 1910-2005 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10581689 ...

Ritland, Osmond J. (Osmond Jay), 1909-

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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; ...