US Air Force General. He served as the Commander-in-Chief of Air Force Logistics Command (now Air Force Materiel Command), headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio from 1968 to 1972. After graduating from high school in 1933, he attended Braden's Preparatory School at Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, and then entered the US Military Academy at West Point, New York from which he graduated in the class of 1939 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Military Science. He was originally assigned to the Cavalry, but requested and was granted a transfer to the US Army Air Corps, finishing both primary and advanced flying school in Texas in 1940. When the US entered into World War II, he was serving with the Army Air Corps Training Detachment at Lakeland, Florida. He performed tours of duty with the 39th and 491st Bombardment Groups as provisional commander, and deputy commander, respectively. In May 1944 he was sent to England and became the air executive officer of the 491st Bombardment Group and later was commander of the 389th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force. At the end of the war he returned to the US and was assigned to the 389th Group in Charleston, South Carolina. From November 1945 until June 1948 he served with the Air Transport Command at various US locations. When the Air Transport Command was reorganized into the Military Air Transport Service (MATS), he became the chief of staff for its Atlantic Division in July 1948. A year later, he became the commander of Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda (now defunct). In September 1951, he was assigned to command the 1600th Air Transport Wing, operating out of Westover Air Force Base. From there he attended the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, graduating in 1954. In July of that year, he was assigned to Headquarters US Air Force in Washington, DC where he served under the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Personnel, Chief of the Plans and Programs Division, and the following year as the Deputy Director, Directorate of Personnel Planning. In 19959 he was reassigned to MATS at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, where he was deputy commander, then commander of its Eastern Transport component. In September 1960 he went to Headquarters MATS (now Headquarters Air Mobility Command) at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, to become its Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans. In January 1962 he returned to Washington, DC to serve as Director of the Budget, Headquarters US Air Force, and assumed the position of Comptroller of the US Air Force in November 1964. In August 1967 he was assigned to Europe where he served as the Vice Commander of US Air Forces Europe, headquartered at Wiesbaden Air Base, Germany. In March 1968 he returned to the US to become the Commander-in-Chief of Air Force Logistics (now Materiel) Command and retired from that position on September 12, 1972 with 33 years of active military service in the US Army Air Corps and US Air Force. Among his military decorations and awards include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, and the French Croix de Guerre. He was a rated command pilot. He died in San Antonio, Texas at the age of 78.