US Air Force General. He served as the Chief of the US Army Air Corps during World War II and the US Air Force Far East Air Forces commander during the first year of the Korean War. He received an appointment to the US Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1911 and graduated in June 1915 with a commission as a 2nd lieutenant of Infantry. He served with the 7th and 34th Infantry divisions in Texas and Arizona until September 1916 when he was detailed to the Aviation Section, USS Signal Corps, for flying training at Rockwell Field, San Diego, California. In May 1917, as a 1st lieutenant, he became commanding officer of the US Army Air Service Flying and Technical Schools at Kelly Field (now Kelly Airfield Annex under Joint Base San Antonio), Texas in May 1917. Three months later, he was promoted to the rank of captain and assigned as school commandant of the School of Military Aeronautics Division ground school at Ohio State University, and later commanding officer of Chanute Field, Illinois (now closed). The following year he was promoted to major and officially transferred to the US Army Air Corps from the Infantry in 1920. He was then assigned to Luke Field, Hawaii as commanding officer of the 10th Air Park. In August 1924 he returned to West Point as instructor in tactics. He graduated from the Air Corps Tactical School at Langley Field (now Joint Base Langley-Eustis), Virginia, in June 1930 and from the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1932. He remained at Fort Leavenworth as an instructor for the next four years. In June 1936 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and assigned to command the 7th Bomb Group at Hamilton Field (now closed), California. In 1939 he graduated from the US Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania and was assigned to the Office of the Chief of the United States Army Air Corps, Washington DC, as head of the Training and Operations Division, with promotion to colonel in March 1940. The following year he became executive officer to General Henry "Hap" Arnold, the Chief of the Air Corps, and in August he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. He commanded the Southeast Air Corps Training Center at Maxwell Field (now Maxwell Air Force Base), Alabama, for five months and was promoted to the rank of major general in February 1942 before returning to Washington DC three months later as Chief of Air Staff under General Arnold. After the US entry into World War II, he was assigned to the China-Burma-India Theater in mid-1943, and appointed Commanding General of the Army Air Forces' India-Burma Sector, deputy Air Commander Southeast Asia, and commander of the Eastern Air Command, Southeast Asia Command. From April 1944 until March 1946, he was commander of the Army Air Forces in the China Theater. In May 1945 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and after the war, he commanded the Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field (now closed), New York, and the Continental Air Command which was organized there in November 1948. In April 1949 he was assigned as commanding general of Far East Air Forces at Tokyo, Japan, which he led through the first year of the Korean War. His units responded rapidly to the North Korean invasion and provided South Korea and General Douglas MacArthur with the vital air support. In May 1951 he suffered a serious heart attack and on January 31, 1952, he retired with almost 37 years of continuous military service in the US Army, the US Army Air Corps, and the US Air Force. Among his military decorations and awards include the Distinguished Service Medal (with three oak leaf clusters), the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal (with one oak leaf cluster), the American Defense Service Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (with five service stars), the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (with one service star), the World War I Victory Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, the American Campaign Medal (with one service star), the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Service Medal (with four service stars), the; Mexican Border Service Medal, the Ho-Tu Medal of Chinese Air Force, the Tashou Cloud Banner (Chinese), the British Companion of the Order of the Bath, the Polish Order of Polonia Restituta Commander's Cross, and the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He died in at the age of 78.