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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Maj Gen Howard P. Smith Jr.

Draftee, US Army 4/1/43; commissioned 2/Lt & rated Aerial Navigator 8/7/44; rated Multi-Engine Pilot 10/8/48; retired 7/31/76 as Major General, rated Command Pilot. Assigned Strategic Air Command 15 years; flew B-17, B-24, B-29, B-47 bombers. Radar Navigator on first B-17 ever to overfly North Pole, first aircraft of any type to overfly North Pole from base in Greenland (7/27/47). Radar mapped Northern Greenland in 1947, discovered new geographic features. Specialized in radar bombing, radar target prediction, Soviet surface-to-air missile deployment Assigned high-level War-Plan and Intelligence positions at HQ, SAC; JCS; Vietnam; HQ, USAF; Defense Intelligence Agency; Pacific Air Forces; European Command; commanded USAF Security Command 1974-75