of staff, operations; and later assistant chief of staff, plans, Headquarters U.S. Air Forces, Europe July 1948 – June 1949: Student, Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama June 1949 – February 1951: Commander, 1st Air Base Group; deputy commander and commander, 22d Bomb Wing; commander, 44th Bomb Wing, March Air Force Base, California March 1951 – July 1951: 98th Bomb Wing, Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, with temporary duty to Korea as vice commander, Far East Air Forces Bomber Command August 1951 – July 1953: Commander, 320th Bomb Wing and later commander, 12th Air Division, March Air Force Base, California August 1953 – July 1954: Commander, Air Task Group 7.4, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, with temporary duty on Eniwetok Island during operational phase of Operation Castle July 1954 – August 1957: Director, Weapon Systems Operations, Wright Air Development Center; assistant deputy commander for weapon systems with additional duty as commander, Detachment 1, Headquarters ARDC, and director of systems management, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio August 1957 – March 1961: Assistant chief of staff, Air Defense Systems; and later assistant deputy chief of staff, operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. April 1961 – October 1962: Deputy commander, Aerospace Systems (Air Force Systems Command), Los Angeles, California October 1962 – July 1964: Vice commander, Air Force Systems Command, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland July 1964 – July 1969: Commander, Military Air Transport Service (later Military Airlift Command), Scott Air Force Base, Illinois August 1, 1969 – Retired Awards and decorations Effective dates of promotion External links 1914 births 2007 deaths United States Air Force personnel of the Korean War American Korean War pilots Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army) Recipients of the Legion of Merit Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States) Recipients of the Air Medal Recipients of the Order of the Sword (United States) United States Air Force generals United States Military Academy alumni People from Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia People from Bethesda, Maryland Recipients of the Czechoslovak War Cross Recipients of the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal