27 Facts About Hoyt Vandenberg

1.

Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg was a United States Air Force general.

2.

Hoyt Vandenberg served as the second Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the second Director of Central Intelligence.

3.

Hoyt Vandenberg was the nephew of Arthur H Vandenberg, a former US Senator from Michigan.

4.

Hoyt Vandenberg grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, spending his teenage years there.

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Hoyt Vandenberg graduated from the United States Military Academy on June 12,1923, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army Air Service.

6.

Hoyt Vandenberg graduated from the Air Service Flying School at Brooks Field, Texas, in February 1924, and from the Air Service Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field, Texas, in September 1924.

7.

Hoyt Vandenberg entered the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Alabama, in August 1934, and graduated the following June.

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8.

Hoyt Vandenberg then became an instructor in the Pursuit Section of the Air Corps Tactical School, where he taught until September 1936, when he entered the Army War College, where he specialized in air defense planning for the Philippines.

9.

In September 1939 and the autumn of 1940, Hoyt Vandenberg developed two air plans for the Philippine Department, the second based on Royal Air Force interceptor operations in the Battle of Britain, but neither was adopted by the War Department when the Roosevelt Administration reaffirmed its long-standing opposition to any plan that called for extensive reinforcement of the defenses in the Philippines.

10.

In 1940 Hoyt Vandenberg was promoted to major and in 1941 to lieutenant colonel.

11.

In June 1942, Hoyt Vandenberg was assigned to the United Kingdom and assisted in the organization of the Air Forces in North Africa.

12.

In December 1942 Hoyt Vandenberg earned the promotion to brigadier general.

13.

On February 18,1943, Hoyt Vandenberg became the chief of staff of the Northwest African Strategic Air Force, which was under the command of Major General James Doolittle.

14.

Hoyt Vandenberg was awarded both the Silver Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his services during this time.

15.

Hoyt Vandenberg was promoted to lieutenant general in March 1945.

16.

Hoyt Vandenberg was appointed the Assistant Chief of Air Staff at the US Army Air Forces headquarters in July 1945.

17.

Hoyt Vandenberg returned to duty with the Air Force in April 1947, and on June 15 became the Deputy Commander in Chief of the Air Staff.

18.

Hoyt Vandenberg appeared on the covers of Time and Life magazines.

19.

Hoyt Vandenberg was renominated by President Harry S Truman for a second term as Air Force Chief of Staff on March 6,1952.

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The nomination was confirmed on April 28, with Hoyt Vandenberg serving until June 30,1953.

21.

Hoyt Vandenberg maintained that the cut backed by Wilson would reduce military aviation to a "one-shot Air Force," inferior to that of the Soviet Union.

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Hoyt Vandenberg said it was another instance of "start-stop" planning of a kind that had impeded Air Force development in previous years.

23.

Hoyt Vandenberg was a lover of movies, Westerns, and scotch.

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Hoyt Vandenberg retired from active duty on June 30,1953, and he died nine months later, at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center of prostate cancer at the age of 55.

25.

Hoyt Vandenberg is interred in Section 30 of Arlington National Cemetery.

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26.

Hoyt Vandenberg was buried, alongside her husband, in Arlington National Cemetery upon her death on January 9,1978.

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One of the two cadets' dormitories at the United States Air Force Academy, Hoyt Vandenberg Hall, is named in his honor.