The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg

Vandenberg

Hoyt Sanford, General

(1899 – 1954) (USAAF/USAF)

1931
- 1932
Instructor and Flight Commander, Air Corps Primary Flying School, Randolph Field, Texas
1932
- 1934
Assistant Stage Commander, Air Corps Primary Flying School, Randolph Field, Texas
1934
- 1935
Student at the Air Corps Tactical School, Maxwell Field, Alabama
1935
- 1936
Student at the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
1936
- 1938
Instructor in the Pursuit Section of the Air Corps Tactical School, Maxwell Field, Alabama
1938
- 1939
Student at the Army War College, Washington Barracks, D.C.
1939
- 1941
Assistant to the Chief of the Air War Plans Division, Office of the Chief of the Air Corps, Washington, D.C.
1941
- 1942
Assistant Chief of the Air Staff for Operations and Training (A 3), Headquarters U.S. Army Air Forces, Washington, D.C.
1942
Chief of the Policy Section, Air Staff Plans Division, Headquarters U.S. Army Air Forces, Washington, D.C.(planning North African invasion and organizing the Twelfth Air Force)
1942
- 1943
Chief of Staff of the Twelfth Air Force, England; from 09.11.1942, Algeria
1943
Chief of Staff of the Northwest African Strategic Air Force (NASAF)
1943
- 1944
Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Headquarters U.S. Army Air Forces, Washington, D.C.
1943
- 1944
Senior U.S. Army Air Forces member of the Military Mission to the USSR under Ambassador Averell Harriman to negotiate an agreement for American basing rights
1944
Deputy Air Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Force and Commanding General of the American Air Component
1944
- 1945
Commanding General of the Ninth Air Force, England; from 15.09.1944, France
1945
- 1946
Assistant Chief of the Air Staff for Operations, Headquarters U.S. Army Air Forces, Washington, D.C.
1946
Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (G-2), Central Intelligence Group, War Department General Staff, Washington, D.C. and Army member of Joint Intelligence Committee and Combined Intelligence Committee, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1946
- 1947
Director of the Central Intelligence Group (CIG)(forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency), Office of the Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.
1947
Acting Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces and Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Headquarters U.S. Army Air Forces, Washington, D.C.
1947
Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces and Chief of the Air Staff, Headquarters U.S. Army Air Forces, Washington, D.C.
1947
- 1948
Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
1948
- 1953
Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
1953
Retired
Picture source: Courtesy of Shawn M. Bohannon