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232 "General Vandenberg..."
Lieutenant General Vandenberg was designated vice chief of staff of the Air Force on October, and promoted to the rank of General. -- Reference Wikipedia.org back to
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233 "... General Norstad..."
"On October 1, 1947, following the division of the War Department into the Departments of The Army and The Air Force, General Norstad was appointed deputy chief of staff for operations of the Air Force" -- Reference Wikipedia.org back to 233)
234 "... Charles Lindbergh was also in the office"
"Charles Lindbergh gained sudden great international fame as the first pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. He flew from Roosevelt Airfield in Garden City, New York, to Paris (Le Bourget Airport) on 20 May - 21 May 1927 in 33.5 hours. His plane was the single-engine aircraft, The Spirit of St. Louis.
Lindbergh's accomplishment won him the Orteig Prize more significant than the prize money was the acclaim that resulted from his daring flight. A ticker-tape parade was held for him down 5th Avenue in New York City on 13 June 1927. His public stature following this flight was such that he became an important voice on behalf of aviation activities, including the central committee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in the United States. The massive publicity surrounding him and his flight boosted the aircraft industry and made a skeptical public take air travel seriously. Lindbergh is recognized in aviation for demonstrating and charting polar air- routes, high altitude flying techniques, and increasing aircraft flying range by decreasing fuel consumption. These innovations are the basis of modern intercontinental air travel. In his six months during WWII in the Pacific in 1944, Lindbergh took part infighter bomber raids on Japanese positions, flying about 50 combat missions (as a civilian. The US. Marine and Army Air Force pilots who served with Lindbergh admired and respected him, praising his courage and defending his patriotism. After World War II he lived quietly in Connecticut as a consultant both to the chief of staff of the US. Air Force and to Pan American World Airways. His 1953 book The Spirit of St. Louis, recounting his nonstop transatlantic flight, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954. Dwight D. Eisenhower restored Lindbergh's assignment with the Army Air Corps and made him a Brigadier General in 1954. In that year, he served on the Congressional advisory panel setup to establish the site of the United States Air Force Academy. In December
1968, he visited the crew of Apollo 8 on the eve of the first manned spaceflight to leave earth orbit. From the son, Lindbergh became an advocate for the conservation of the natural world, campaigning to protect endangered species like humpback and blue whales, was instrumental in establishing protections for the "primitive" Filipino group the Tasaday and African tribes, and supporting the establishment of a national park. While studying the
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native flora and fauna of the Philippines, he also became involved in an effort to protect the Philippine eagle.
In his final years, Lindbergh became troubled that the world was out of balance with

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