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...Chief Hoyt Vandenberg, then Deputy Chief of Air Staff, went to Moscow to explain strategic bombing to the Russians and convince them that it was worthwhile. Today, he sighs, "maybe I did too good a job." The Russians put on a great show of being disinterested in Vandenberg's photos of gutted Nazi factories. "All altitudes above 15 feet over the tree tops is wasted," they said. But in the battle for Berlin, when the Luftwaffe had already been crippled by the R.A.F. and the U.S. Air Force, the Russians proved that they had been listening. For 60 days...
...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...