John A. Samford
John Alexander Samford (* 1905 in Hagerman, New Mexico, † December 1, 1968 ) was a Lieutenant General in the U.S. Air Force from 1956 to 1960 and Director of the U.S. National Intelligence Security Agency ( NSA).
Life
After 1922 successfully graduated from high school, he spent a year at Columbia College, Columbia University. In 1924 he was given the opportunity to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, from which he graduated in 1928 as 131ster in a class of 260 students by a Senator.
Second Lieutenant Samford's first post was that of a student officer at Brooks Field, Texas. In 1929 he received his plane in Kelly Field badges ( Pilotwings ). His first assignment after Kelly Field led him to Galveston, Texas. In 1930 he returned to Kelly Field, where he served as a flight instructor. Four years later - in 1934 - he was assigned to a technology and defense school in Chanute Field, Illinois; 1935 to 1942 he held various jobs in Panama, Virginia, Louisiana and Florida.
As a Colonel, he was assistant chief of staff of the third headquarters of the U.S. Air Force in Tampa, Florida, and then became the chief of staff of the Eighth Air Force Composite Command in Northern Ireland called. Appointed in 1943 as deputy chief of staff of the eighth Air Force, he later became Chief of Staff of the VIII Bomber Command.
In 1944 they suggested Samfort as Brigadier General before and appointed him chief of staff of the eighth Air Force. In October of the same year he became deputy assistant chief of staff of the headquarters of the U.S. Army Air Forces. In January 1947 he became commander of the 24th Composite Wing, which was soon converted to the airborne division of the Antilles of the Caribbean Air Command. Samford was appointed in 1949 as commander of the Air Command and Staff School, 1950 promoted to Major General and was before he was director of intelligence for the U.S. Air Force, and Commander of the Air War College.
On November 24, 1956 Major General Samford was given the post of director of NSA and retained, promoted to Lieutenant General, the post until his resignation on 23 November 1960.