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Ryan, John D. (John Dale), 1915-1983

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John Dale Ryan (1915-1983) was the Seventh Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. He was born in Cherokee, Iowa, where he graduated from Cherokee Junior College before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He graduated from West Point in 1938, and attended flight schools at Randolph and Kelly Fields, Texas, receiving his pilot''s wings in 1939. During the early years of World War II, he served as a flight instructor and in training roles at Kelly Field and ...

Burns, Robert W. (Robert Whitney), 1908-1964

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Robert Whitney Burns (1908-1964) was born in Stanley, Wisconsin. Following two years at the University of Wisconsin, he entered the Army Air Corps for aviation cadet training at March Field, California, in October 1928. Upon graduation and receiving his commission as second lieutenant in the Air Corps Reserve a year later, he was assigned to Selfridge Field, Michigan, as operations and engineering officer of the 17th Pursuit Squadron, 1st Pursuit Group. In February 1932, General Burns received h...

McKee, Seth J. (Seth Jefferson), 1916-

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Seth Jefferson McKee was born in 1916, in McGehee, Arkansas. Following graduation from Cape Girardeau High School in 1934, he attended Southeast Missouri State Teachers College for three years and the University of Oklahoma for a half year. He began his military career in 1935, as a member of the Missouri National Guard, and his Air Force career as an aviation cadet in February 1938. He graduated from flight training in February 1939. From February 1939 until January 1944, he served in operation...

Vogt, John W., 1920-....

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John W. Vogt (b. 1920), U.S. Air Force officer, entered the Army Air Corps as an aviation cadet in 1941 after graduating from university. He received his commission and pilot wings the following year. In early 1943 he served as flight commander, 63rd Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group, and in 1944 he became commander, 360th Fighter Squadron, 356th Fighter Group. He participated in the Air Offensive, Europe and Rhineland campaigns and the Normandy Invasion. During the 1950s he was assigned to t...

Bonesteel, Charles H. (Charles Hartwell), 1909-1977

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Charles Hartwell Bonesteel (1909-1977) was born in Plattsburg, New York, the son of Charles Hartwell and Caroline Mead (Hudson) Bonesteel. He graduated from West Point in 1931 and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1934. In that same year, he married Alice M. Pratt, with whom he had one son, Charles Hartwell IV. After serving in Europe during World War II, he represented the War Department in the Council of Foreign Ministers in Paris, New York City, and Moscow. In 1947 and 1948, he was app...

O'Keefe, Timothy F. (Timothy Francis), 1919-1984

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Timothy Francis O'Keefe (b. 1919, Brooklyn, N.Y.-d. Oct. 14, 1984), U.S. Air Force officer, completed flight training and received his commission in the Army Air Corps Reserve in 1940. He became operations and training staff officer, 13th Air Force, in the Southwest Pacific in 1944. After the War, he was assigned to Army Air Force HQ and then served as commander of the Primary Pilot Training School. After further officer training and U.S. assignments, he went to Japan as deputy for operations, F...

Edmundson, James V. (James Valentine), 1915-2001

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Harrell, John W., 1919-1995

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John W. Harrell, Jr. (b. Aug. 6, 1919, Birmingham, Ala.-d. March 10, 1995), Brigadier General in the U.S. Air Force, graduated from West Point in 1942, finished flying training, and was transferred to the Air Corps. He flew with the 479th Fighter Group stationed in England beginning in 1944 as flight commander and squadron and assistant group operations officer. He completed 82 combat missions over occupied Europe and Germany. At the end of World War II, he earned a master's degree in electrical...

Friedman, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1913-2003

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Robert Joseph Friedman (1913-2003) was born at Bethpage, Long Island, New York, where he attended local schools before entering the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering in 1936. He had received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery in the Reserve Officer Corps in 1935, and entered military service after completing his studies. Prior to World War II, he served with the 83rd Field Artillery at Fort Benni...

Beach, Dwight E. (Dwight Edward), 1908-2000

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Dwight E. Beach served in the following units: Army Combat Developments Command. From the description of The Dwight E. Beach papers, 1961-1965. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 46679482 Dwight Edward Beach (July 20, 1908-July 22, 2000) was born in Chelsea, Michigan. He served as Chief of Research of the Department of the Army in Washington, D.C. from July 1962 to August 1963. From the description of Beach, Dwight E. (Dwight Edward), 1908-2000 (U...

Hedlund, Earl C. (Earl Clifford), 1916-2002

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Earl C. Hedlund (b. 1916, Valparaiso, Neb.-d. July 21, 2002), U. S. Air Force officer, was commissioned in the U.S. Army Reserve in 1938 through the ROTC program at university and graduated from pilot training in 1942. He served as a fighter pilot, squadron commander, group commander, and deputy wing commander in the Pacific and European theaters of operations from 1942 to 1947. In April 1945 his P-38 was shot down, and he was captured by the Germans for a short time before escaping back to Amer...

Ryan, Ward S. (Ward Sanford), 1912-

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Ward Sanford Ryan (b. Aug. 31, 1912, Billings, Montana), U.S. Army officer, graduated from West Point in 1938. During World War II, he was commanding officer, 513th Parachute Infantry. In 1954 he was commanding officer, 60th Infantry. During the 1960s he served as deputy commandant, U.S. Army War College; assistant division commander, 101st Airborne Division; chief of the U.S. Military Training Mission to Saudi Arabia; and with the U.S. Army Advance Group, Korea. In 1970 he began his assignment ...