US Air Force General. He rose in rank to become the Commander-in-Chief of Air Force Logistics Command (now Air Force Material Command) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. A fighter ace in the European Theater during World War II, he was a highly decorated military officer. Born Felix Michael Rogers, he graduated from Newton North High School in Newtonville, Massachusetts in 1939 and enlisted as a private in the US Army Air Corps in April 1942, following the US entry into World War II. In August 1942 he became an aviation cadet and received a commission as a 2nd lieutenant. During World War II he served as a P-39 Airacobra pilot with the 353rd Fighter Squadron at Hamilton Field, California and moved with the squadron to the European Theater of Operations, where he flew P-51 Mustang aircraft in combat operations and became squadron commander. During this time, he was credited with shooting down 12 enemy aircraft. In January 1945 he returned to the US and served as a flight commander, operations officer, at various assignments. In August 1949 transferred to Headquarters US Air Force in Washington DC as an intelligence staff officer in the Directorate of Intelligence, which led to an air attache assignment to Madrid, Spain. In 1957 he returned to Headquarters US Air Force as chief of the Current Intelligence Branch in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations. In August 1960 he entered the National War College at Fort McNair in Washington DC and after completion, he was assigned to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense in Washington DC, with duty station at the State Department. In 1966 he was assigned to Air Force Systems Command (now included with Air Force Material Command) as assistant deputy chief of staff, development plans where he was responsible for the concept formulation of the F-15 Eagle, the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the E-3 Sentry AWACS, and the B-1 Lancer aircraft. From July 1970 until August 1971, he was the senior member, United Nations Command, Military Armistice Commission, Korea, then became the deputy chief of staff for technical training at Headquarters Air Training Command (now Headquarters Air Education and Training Command) at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, and the following year he became vice commander of Air Training Command. In November 1973 he was appointed commander of the Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama and two years later he was promoted to the rank of general and became the Commander-in-Chief of Air Force Logistics Command (now Air Force Material Command). He retired in that position in January 1978, with 36 years of continuous military service. His military and foreign decorations and awards include the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal (with three oak leaf clusters), the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit (with oak leaf cluster), the Distinguished Flying Cross (with one oak leaf cluster), the Bronze Star, the Air Medal (with twenty oak leaf clusters), the World War II Victory Medal, the Spanish Order of Aeronautical Merit, and the South Korean Order of National Security Merit. After his military retirement, he became an investment banker and later became President and CEO of Regent Airlines and later the founding Chairman and CEO of MGM Grand Air (now Champion Air). He died of complications from Parkinson's disease at the age of 92.