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  • Maj Gen Harold Charles Teubner
  • Maj Gen Harold Charles Teubner

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    General Teubner was born in 1919, in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from high school in 1935 and from North Texas Agriculture College in 1940. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps as an aviation cadet in April 1941 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in December 1941 at Stockton Field, Calif.
    During WWII he trained heavy bombardment combat crews. In April 1944, as a lead crew commander of the 444th Bombardment Group, one of the first B-29 units, he was transferred to the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations. He flew missions covering the Dutch East Indies, Burma, Malaya, China, Formosa, Manchuria and Japan.
    After WWII, General Teubner participated in the first nuclear weapons tests (Project Crossroads). He attended Army Command and Staff School and then Texas A&M, receiving a BS in engineering in 1948. He then was chief of Combat Crew Training with the Fifteenth Air Force
    (SAC).
    He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and obtained his MS degree in aeronautical engineering in 1951 and then taught engineering at the AF Institute of Technology. From 1953 to 1957 he served as chief of the Guidance and Control Division, HQ Air Research and Development Command, Baltimore, Md.
    He graduated from the Air War College in 1958 and then as director of engineering liaison, Third Air Force in London, England. In 1961 he attended the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and simultaneously obtained an MBA from The George Washington University.
    General Teubner was assigned to HQ USAF in 1962 and held successive assignments as Chief of Electronics Division, Deputy Director of Science and Technology, and assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for R&D and Deputy Director of the Budget, USAF Comptroller in 1966. In 1967 he was assigned as Deputy Chief of Staff for Comptroller, Air Force Systems Command. General Teubner became Auditor General of the Air Force with headquarters at Norton Air Force Base, Calif., in 1970 where he retired in 1973.
    His military decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, Distinguished Flying Cross with two oak leaf clusters, Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters, and Air Force Commendation Medal.
    Subsequent to his distinguished military career, General Teubner worked for United Technologies for the next ten years and retired to his present home in San Antonio, Texas.

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