Word: hoyt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force demand for such a huge buildup is apt to touch off the loudest howl the Pentagon has heard since the row over the B-36-and principally from the same source: the Navy. But if Air Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg fails to convince his colleagues in the J.C.S., the Air Force is ready to take it up to Defense Secretary Marshall. There the Air Force expects...
...Army made him a Brigadier General at 38, gave him the 12th Fighter Command in Africa in 1943. On D-plus-one, he landed on a shell-swept Normandy beach as a major general heading the 9th Fighter Command in Hoyt Vandenberg's Ninth Air Force. Harsh and driving, he was all over the front, browbeating airfield engineers, chewing out squadron commanders for not doing more, flying battle missions between times...
...Pasture. Last week, 1,000-odd people in dust-covered cars drove up a dirt road in Lincoln Forest for the annual meeting at Nogal Mesa. Four times a day they filled the rough pine tabernacle (which ranchers built themselves two years ago) to pray and listen to Brother Hoyt Boles, a hefty, plain-spoken Presbyterian from Denton, Texas, and Brother Bob Goodrich, a Methodist from Dallas. There was no shouting or breast-beating. Even conversions came quietly, with only the exchange of a firm handclasp between minister and convert...
COMMANDER CHARLES F. HOYT...
Meanwhile, Moscow was underlining the urgency of Hoyt Vandenberg's air-defense mission in Paris. The Russians were reported to have moved 500 MIG-15 jets and jet bombers into East Germany to replace their old, propeller-driven planes...