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...Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg, on a round-the-world inspection tour, touched down at a Korean airstrip, called for Marine Pfc. Nicholas Baldwin and handed him a big box of cookies. The general had met the marine's parents in Florence, Italy, and volunteered to play messenger. The marine's reaction: "I was plenty shook...
Buildup. In France to investigate Washington reports of "slow progress, bad conditions and bottlenecks," General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, U.S.A.F. Chief of Staff, found his crews living in damp, crowded tents, tramping across muddy fields to exhume crates of spare parts stacked in the open for lack of hangar space. Ground controllers still radio instructions to hovering planes from the backs of olivedrab trucks, parked near the runways. At the 48th Fighter Bomber's bleak, bare base at Chaumont, the Chief of Staff...
Conditions are improving, and U.S. General Lauris Norstad, NATO air commander in Central Europe, promised to have every one of his men in warm hutments before winter sets in. Impressed after five days' touring, Hoyt Vandenberg reported morale "damned good...
After visiting Norway, Sweden and England, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg settled down with his wife in Paris for a five-day stay and a round of official visits. Next major stops on his worldwide tour: Switzerland, Spain, North Africa, Italy, Turkey, Philippines, Korea, Japan, Alaska and "home, I hope...
...magazine Air Force appealed for the return to Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg of his $50 uniform cap, which he lost at a luncheon in Detroit in August. The general's hat was "unique and unmistakably identifiable and encrusted clear around with silver lightning." The "overzealous souvenir hunter . . . cannot brag about it to friends, nor hang it proudly over the mantel, nor wear it . . ." If the hat is returned, "the general is willing to forgive and forget with no questions asked...