Robert Broussard Landry (1 December 190914 July 2000) was a major general in the United States Air Force (USAF). A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point class of 1932, he flew 32 combat missions in Europe during World War II as a fighter and bomber pilot. He was the USAF aide to the President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, from 1948 to 1953. In this role he represented the Air Force at the White House and advised the president on Air Force matters. He retired from the Air Force in 1962 and died at the age of 90. Early life Robert Broussard Landry was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 1 December 1909, the son of Luke Valcour Landry and his wife Josephine Scharpe. He was a direct descendant of Pierre Joseph Landry, who served as a captain in the Louisiana Militia during the War of 1812. He had a brother, Ernest Scharpe Landry, and a sister, Val Louise, who later married Milton Summerfelt. In 1927, Landry graduated from Jesuit High School and entered Tulane University, intending to become a mechanical and electrical engineer. He was a Kappa Sigma. In 1928, his father secured him a second alternative appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, through Senator Edwin S. Broussard. (He was named after the Senator's brother Robert F. Broussard.) The Senator's principal candidate and the first alternative failed to qualify, and Landry was given the appointment. Landry entered West Point on 2 July 1928. His roommate was Robert Lee Scott Jr. Landry played football, baseball, basketball and tennis. He graduated on 10 June 1932, ranked 217th in his class, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Infantry. He married Mildred Marie Rosa Plauche on 15 August 1932; they had seven children. His first posting was to Camp Stephen D. Little, Arizona, with the African-American 25th Infantry, from 31 August to 28 December 1932, when he moved to Fort Huachuca, Arizona. In 1934, Landry volunteered for the United States Army Air Corps. He received his pilot rating at Kelly Field, Texas, from which he graduated in February 1935. He transferred to the Air Corps on 20 March 1935 and was assigned to the 16th Pursuit Group at Albrook Field in the Panama Canal Zone. He returned to the United States in 1937 and was assigned to the