of Staff, A-5 (Plans), at Headquarters U.S. Army Strategic Air Forces on Guam, where he worked under General Carl Spaatz and Major General Curtis Le May, conducting Air raids on Japan. From 20 December 1945 to 17 January 1946 he was the Assistant Chief of Staff, A-5, of the Pacific Air Command in Manila. He commanded the 316th Bombardment Wing at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa from 18 January 1946 to 23 February 1947. He then moved to Tokyo, where he became the Assistant Chief of Staff, A-2 (Intelligence), for the Far East Air Forces from 24 February to 13 June 1947. Later life Lindsay returned to the United States, where he became Chief of the Policy Division in the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations at Army Air Forces Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Soon after, the United States Air Force was formed, and he was Chief of the Policy Division from 30 June 1947 to 18 April 1948, and its Deputy Director from 19 April 1948 to 2 October 1949, with the rank of major general from 1 November 1947. He then served once again with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as the Air Force member of the Joint Staff Planners (later the Joint Strategic Plans Committee) from 3 October 1949 to 20 October 1950, and the Deputy Director for Strategic Plans from 1 May 1950 to 30 June 1951. On 1 July 1951 Lindsay became the standing group liaison officer to the council deputies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which was located in Washington, D.C., although the council deputies were in London. On 19 July 1952, he became commander of the 3560th Air Force Indoctrination Wing at Sampson Air Force Base, New York. In this role he supervised the basic training of Air Force recruits. He returned to Air Force headquarters in April 1954 as Director of Plans in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations, and became the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations on 11 February 1957. He was promoted to lieutenant general in May 1957. His last assignment, on 1 August 1957, was as NATO commander of Allied Air Forces Southern Europe, with his headquarters in Naples, Italy. He retired on 30 April 1960. After retiring from the Air Force Lindsay worked as a consultant for RAND Corporation and several defense contractors until 1969. He