US Air Force Brigadier General. His early education was in the Charleston county schools, followed by graduation from The Citadel in 1927 with a degree in civil engineering as well as a reserve commission in the coast artillery. He then enrolled at the University of South Carolina where he studied law. Two years later he entered flight school and in 1930 earned his wings. He was appointed a second lieutenant of the 18th Pursuit Group and stationed at Wheeler Field, Hawaii. From 1935 to 1942 he was in an inactive reserve status, but kept flying while with Delta Air Lines. With the United States involvement in World War II and the need for experienced pilots and instructor, he returned to active service and helped train the air transport crews who landed and dropped and resupplied combat troops in the battle theater. He was Colonel of the 441st Troop Carrier Group which participated in the assault on Normandy on June 6, 1944 and he piloted a troop transport in the first wave of planes that dropped Allied paratrooper behind the enemy lines on D-Day. For eights months he flew these vital troop carriers and air logistic missions in the European theater during the invasion of France and the drive through the Netherlands. After the war he returned to fly commercial airlines at United, however in 1948 the Air Force recalled him to duty and was given the command of the task force that flew the Berlin Airlift. He also continued in the troop carrier phase of United States air power with command and staff duties in Germany, Florida and at Donaldson Air Force Base in Greenville, South Carolina. While at Donaldson he participated in important resupply operations in Greenland for the building and equipping of weather and radar stations on the ice caps. He also supported the airlift and airdrop operations that enabled the United States to build its "Dew Line" early warning defense radar network in the north. In 1955 he commanded the 464th Troop Carrier Wing Tactical Air Command assault airlift units at Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina followed by the command of the air logistic forces of the 315th Air Division Pacific Air Forces at Tachikawa Air Base in Japan and the Far East. His final assignment was as Commanding General of Shaw Air Force base in Sumter, South Carolina from September of 1863 through August 1, 1964. While at Shaw he was Special Assistant to the Commander of the Ninth Air Force. He retired from the Air Force in July of 1964