Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. DAEDALION TROPHY
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Spaatz, Carl, 1891-1974
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Carl Andrew Spaatz (born Spatz; June 28, 1891 – July 14, 1974), nicknamed "Tooey", was an American World War II general. As commander of Strategic Air Forces in Europe in 1944, he successfully pressed for the bombing of the enemy's oil production facilities as a priority over other targets. He became Chief of Staff of the newly formed United States Air Force in 1947. Spaatz retired with the rank of general on June 30, 1948. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Servic...
Stillman, Robert M. (Robert Morris), 1911-1991
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Air Force officer. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert M. Stillman : oral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527605 Robert Morris Stillman (b. 1911, Greenville, Ohio-d. May 22, 1991) was designated commandant of cadets at the newly opened U.S. Air Force Academy on September 1, 1954. From September 1958 to October 1961 he commanded Lackland Military Training Center in Texas. From October 1961 to July 1963 he comman...
Hudnell, William T. (William Thomas), 1908-1986
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William Thomas Hudnell (b. 1908, Aurora, N.C.-d. July 4, 1986), U.S. Air Force officer, enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1931 and earned pilot's wings and a commission in 1933. After various command and logistic staff assignments, he was appointed assistant chief of staff for materiel of the 1st Fighter Command in 1942. During World War II in the Southwest Pacific, he served at Headquarters Far East Air Force and as chief of staff, 5th Air Force, and flew combat missions. In the 1950s, General ...
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; ...
Bedwell, Theodore C. (Theodore Cleveland), 1909-1997
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Theodore Cleveland Bedwell, Jr., (1909-1997) was born in Caddo Mills, Texas, in 1909. He graduated from Sulphur Springs High School, Texas, in 1926; then he attended Northeast Missouri State College, Kirksville, Mo., and Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, from which he was awarded a B.S. degree in 1931. He received his doctor of medicine degree from Baylor University Medical College in June 1933. Upon graduation he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps Reserve of th...
Clark, Harold L., 1893-1973
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Harold L. Clark (b. Sept. 28, 1893, Stillwater, Minn.-d. Aug. 23, 1973), U.S. Air Force officer, enlisted in the Signal Corps Reserve in 1917 as a flying cadet and the following year was appointed a second lieutenant. He served as a flying instructor and Supply Officer before becoming Commanding Officer of the 20th Aero Squadron at Kelly Field, Texas. During the 1920s and 1930s, he undertook special engineering instruction, served with the 65th Service Squadron and the 6th Pursuit Squadron in Ha...
Eaker, Ira, 1896-1987
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Air Force officer. From the description of Reminiscences of Ira Clarence Eaker : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451540 From the description of Reminiscences of Ira Clarence Eaker : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86147461 U.S. Army officer, U.S. Air Force officer, aviation pioneer, aircraft industry executive, and newspaper columnist. From th...
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...
Duncan, Claude E. (Claude Edward), 1895-1971
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Claude Edward Duncan (b. 1895, Boulder, Co.-d. Dec. 1, 1971), U.S. Air Force officer, began his military career in 1917 with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe as an officer pilot in the Air Reserve. Later he served as a flying instructor and, after graduating from the Air Corps Tactical School, assumed command of the First Bomb Squadron. In January 1942 General Duncan was assigned to the Eighth Air Force in England and later that year commanded the XII Bomber Command in England and Nor...
O'Donnell, Emmett, 1906-1971
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General Emmett (Rosy) O'Donnell was one of aviation's pioneers who from his days as an Army Air Corps air mail pilot went on to build an impressive list of military aviation firsts. In 1941 he led the first mass flight of B-17 Flying Fortresses across the Pacific from Hawaii to the Philippines. Before World War II was two days old, he had earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. In the midst of an enemy air attack, O'Donnell dove his B-17 through antiaircraft fire to attack a Japanese cruiser and ...
Griffith, Perry B. (Perry Bruce), 1911-1985
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Perry Bruce Griffith (b. 1911, Wichita, Kan.-d. Jan. 10, 1985), U.S. Air Force officer, graduated from West Point in 1934 and later earned his pilot's wings and transferred to the Air Corps. In 1942 he became commander of the VI Support Command which was engaged in anti-submarine warfare in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean areas and prepared for combat in Europe and the Pacific theaters of operations in World War II. After graduating from the Air War College, he assumed command of the 4901st Supp...
Combs, Cecil E. (Cecil Edward), 1912-1982
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Cecil Edward Combs was born October 21, 1912, in Dallas, Texas. He received his commission as 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1936, and advanced through grades to major general in the U.S. Air Force in 1961. He served as commandant of the Air Force Institute of Technology from 1957 to 1965. Combs died in December 1982 in San Antonio, Texas. From the description of Combs, Cecil E. (Cecil Edward), 1912-1982 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10614235 ...
Lee, Robert M. (Robert Merrill), 1909-2003
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A graduate of West Point, Robert M. Lee received his wings in 1932 and was one of the Air Corps pilots flying the treacherous airmail route in 1934. As a Captain, Lee attended the Air Corps Tactical School and, in 1941, he became chief of corps aviation. With World War II underway, Lee was assigned to the Ninth Air Force in France, serving as deputy commander for operations under Hoyt S. Vandenberg, assisting in the defeat of Germany in four major campaigns. In January 1946, Lee returned to the ...
