Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. COLLIER TROPHY PRESENTATION TO USAF
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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 ...
Lemnitzer, Lyman L. (Lyman Louis), 1899-1988
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Schriever, Bernard A., 1917-2005
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Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993
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Sharp, Dudley (Dudley Crawford), 1905-1987
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Dudley Crawford Sharp (b. Mar. 16, 1905, Houston-d. May 17, 1987), manufacturing executive, served as Secretary of the Air Force during the Eisenhower administration. From the description of Sharp, Dudley (Dudley Crawford), 1905-1987 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10597156 Government official. From the description of Reminiscences of Dudley Crawford Sharp : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat rec...
