Thomas D. White

Thomas Dresser White ( born August 6, 1901 in Walker, Minnesota, † December 22, 1965 ) was a general in the U.S. Air Force and most recently from 1957 to Chief of Staff of the Air Force in 1961.

Life

Military training and World War II

After school he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and was promoted after the end on 2 July 1920, a lieutenant in the infantry, then shortly thereafter was promoted to first lieutenant. After that, he began training at the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, this completed in July 1921 and was subsequently used in the 14th Infantery in Fort Davis in the Panama Canal Zone.

In September 1924 he joined the Primary Flying School at Brooks Field a, now Brooks City-Base in Texas and finished afterwards in September 1925, the Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field Annex, Texas. Subsequently, he was an officer in the 99th Observation Squadron at Bolling Field in Washington, DC employed. In June 1927 he began a study of the Chinese language in Beijing and found after his return to the United States in 1931 using the headquarters of the U.S. Army Air Corps in Washington.

In February 1934, White was assistant military and Air Force Attaché at the Embassy in the Soviet Union in 1935 and then assistant military and air force attaché to the Embassy in Italy and Greece. After his return, he graduated from the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field in Alabama and came after the end of May 1938 in the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth one. Once finished, it was first employees of the commander of the U.S. Army Air Corps office before he first military attaché at the embassy in Brazil and then in August 1940, Chief of the Military Air Force mission in Brazil in April 1940.

After White was returned in March 1942 in the U.S., he was first deputy chief of staff of the Third Air Force for operations in Tampa and shortly thereafter Chief of Staff. In January 1944 he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Air Forces ( USAAF) for intelligence services. During the Pacific War, he was in September 1944, the deputy commander in charge of the South West Pacific Thirteenth Air Force, and took in the aftermath of battles in New Guinea, the Philippines and Borneo part.

Ascent to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force

In June 1945 he was appointed commander of the Seventh Air Force in the Marianas and moved them shortly thereafter to the Okinawa islands. After the surrender of Japan on 15 August 1945, he returned as commander of the Seventh Air Force in January 1946 on the trunk base to Hawaii back, but took over in October 1946, the office of the Chief of Staff of the Pacific Air Forces ( PACAF ) in Tokyo. In October 1947 he became commander of the Fifth Air Force at Yokota Air Base.

In October 1948, he again returned to Washington and became the Director of Legislation and connectivity in the office of the U.S. Secretary of the Air Force and then in May 1950, representatives of the Air Force in the Joint Strategic Survey Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In February 1951, he was first director of planning at the headquarters of the U.S. Air Force and then in July 1951 Deputy Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force for operations.

On June 30, 1953, he was promoted to General and took over as such, the Office of the Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force ( VCSAF ).

Was Thomas D. White as successor to General Nathan F. Twining Chief of Staff of the Air Force ( CSAF ) On July 1, 1957. He continued in this position until his retirement on 30 June 1961, its replacement by the previous VCSAF, General Curtis E. LeMay.

Awards

Selection of decorations, sorted on the basis of the Order of Precedence of the Military Awards:

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