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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...
Hard Lesson. Good as they are in fighters, the Russians still have a long way to go before they can count a well-rounded air force. Hoyt Vandenberg's lessons on strategic air power have been hard to learn. Air Force Chief Vershinin has been kicked out, and Colonel General Pavel Zhigarev is now belatedly building up Russia's heavy bomber fleet...
Temporarily out of things, grandfather Foster's turbine actually was just at the beginning of something new. In March 1950, at the insistence of Arthur Vandenberg, Dulles was restored to a position in the State Department. Dean Acheson assigned him to the job of formulating the treaty for Japan, a chore which had been on the back burner for almost three years. The Pentagon was not sure that it ever wanted to see Japan turned loose-at least...
...will of the late Actor David Warfield, filed for probate last week, left an estate of more than $1,000,000; that of the late Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg came...
...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...