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	Hoyt Vandenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg (January 24, 1899–April 2, 1954) was an U.S. Air Force officer and director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
		General Hoyt S. Vandenberg was the second chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. The general was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1899.
		In June 1943, General Vandenberg was assigned to the United Kingdom and assisted in the organization of the Air Forces in North Africa.
	www.portarthur.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Hoyt_Vandenberg (892 words)

	Hoyt Vandenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central coast of California is named for General Vandenberg.
		General Vandenberg retired from active duty as a result of illness on June 30, 1953, and died nine months later at Walter Reed Army Medical center from prostate cancer at the age of 55 and was buried in Section 30 of Arlington National Cemetery.
		In July of 1963, the instrument ship "General Hoyt S. Vandenberg" was dedicated at Cape Canaveral for duty on the missile and space range in the Atlantic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hoyt_S._Vandenberg (1294 words)

	United States of America Korean War Commemoration Biographies - Vandenberg
		Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, air force officer, chief of staff, U.S. Air Force, 1948-1953, and nephew of prominent U.S. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-Michigan) was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on January 24, 1899.
		From the early fighting until the end of the war, Vandenberg was under heavy pressure from Army commanders to shift the control of tactical air support from the Air Force to the Army.
		It was therefore not surprising that in March of 1953, Vandenberg joined with the JCS to recommend to President Dwight D. Eisenhower the extensive use of strategic and tactical nuclear weapons to end the war.
	korea50.army.mil /history/biographies/vandenberg.shtml (1264 words)

	General Hoyt S. Vandenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hoyt S. Vandenberg was the second chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force and the first leader of the Air Force during the Cold War, the "builder" of an independent Air Force.
		Vandenberg was born at Milwaukee, Wis., in 1899.
		Vandenberg was assigned to Air Corps headquarters as deputy chief of air staff, and only a month later he became head of an air mission to Russia, under Ambassador Harriman, and returned to the United States in January 1944.
	www.af.mil /history/person.asp?dec=1940&pid=123006497 (794 words)

	Hoyt Vandenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Vandenberg's training at the Air Corps Tactical School and the Army War College lead him to a position on the staff of AAF Chief, General H. Arnold.
		In early 1942 Vandenberg was called upon to organize the 12th Air Force as its Chief of Staff under General James Doolittle.
		In July, 1945 Vandenberg was appointed Assistant Chief of the Air Staff in the Army Air Forces.
	www.aviationhalloffamewisconsin.com /inductees/vandenberg.htm (334 words)

	Vandenberg Air Force Base - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Vandenberg Air Force Base is a base with a spaceport, located in Santa Barbara County, California.
		Vandenberg is home to the 30th Space Wing and the Western Launch and Test Range (WLTR), and is responsible for satellite launches for military and commercial organizations, as well as testing of intercontinental ballistic missiles, including the Minuteman III and Peacekeeper ICBMs.
		Vandenberg is also used for the launch of non-military satellites in polar orbits.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Vandenberg_AFB (1018 words)

	Charleston AFB Success Story - September 1999
		Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB) is located in central California, approximately 150 miles Northwest of Los Angeles, and is the 3rd largest Air Force Base in the nation.
		Vandenberg AFB's commitment to pollution prevention (P2) and protection of the environment is evidenced by its selection as the recipient of the 1998 Air Force's General Thomas D. White Award for Environmental Quality and the 1998 Secretary of Defense Environmental Security Award for cultural resources management.
		Vandenberg AFB currently permits 23,500 acres of rangeland for grazing and 1,100 acres for farming.
	www.p2pays.org /ref/07/06009.htm (4826 words)

	:: Welcome to the National Reconnaissance Office ::
		Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) share a long history dating back to the late 1950s.
		Vandenberg was the base from which those satellites were launched between August 1959 and May 1972.
		Vandenberg AFB dates back to 1941 when it was an armor and infantry training center.
	www.nro.gov /PressReleases/vandenberg.html (519 words)

	vandenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hoyt S. Vandenberg. At the time of the Roswell incident, Gen. Vandenberg was the Army Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff. ; With AAF Chief of Staff Gen. Spaatz out of town, Vandenberg was the acting AAF chief at the Pentagon. Vandenberg's official Air Force biography can be read
		Vandenberg was in the Roswell incident region only three days before the story broke on July 8. Was this merely a coincidence or was something else happening that required the personal presence of the acting AAF Chief of Staff?
		The previous day, Vandenberg is also noted as meeting briefly with LeMay on two occasions, one of them being noted "with reference to discs." The context, however, may indicate that this was in reference to a hoax disc recovery in Houston (the incident mentioned by the Air Force in their Roswell report).
	www.roswellproof.com /vandenberg.html (2324 words)

	Vandenberg
		Vandenberg Air Force Base is located on the Central Coast of California about 240 km northwest of Los Angeles.
		On October 4, 1958, Cooke AFB was renamed Vandenberg AFB in honor of the late General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the Air Force's second Chief of Staff.
		On February 1, 1965, Vandenberg's AFWTR was given full responsibility for ICBM and space support functions, previously assigned to the Navy's Pacific Missile Range.
	www.astronautix.com /sites/vannberg.htm (4584 words)

	Filer's Files #44-2005
		Vandenberg at the Pentagon who at the time was deputy chief of the Army Air Force.
		On Monday, July 7, General Vandenberg's Dairy is full of UFO reports, and he spends most of the day taking care of a flying saucer recovery in Houston, TEXAS, an incident that he later claims was a hoax.
		Vandenberg's Dairy reports he returned from Congressman Wolverton's office at 5:07 PM and went immediately to Secretary of the Army Air Force Mr Symington's Office with reference to personnel for the President's Air Board.
	www.ufoinfo.com /filer/2000/ff_0044.shtml (4754 words)

	SW History Office - General Vandenberg's Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Vandenberg Air Force Base is named in honor of the late General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, second Air Force Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force and chief architect of today's modern Air Force.
		Hoyt Vandenberg was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on January 24, 1899.
		During the early stages of the war, Vandenberg (then a colonel), was transferred to England and assisted in planning air operations for the invasion of North Africa.
	www.vandenberg.af.mil /~swStaff/history/generalVandenberg.asp?HLSTAFF=y&HLHISTO=y (534 words)

	Chapter 10 - The Last Salute
		General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Chief of Staff of the Air Force from 1948 to 1953, died at Walter Reed General Hospital on 2 April 1954 at the age of fiftyfive.
		General Vandenberg's body was to lie in St. Joseph's Chapel at the Washington National Cathedral until the funeral service, which was to be held in the cathedral nave and was to be conducted according to rites of the Episcopal Church, of which the Vandenbergs were communicants.
		The ceremonies for General Vandenberg had been marked by several departures from the prescribed Special Military Funeral, notably by the absence of the horse-drawn caisson, the omission of three volleys by a firing squad at the grave side, and the addition of a flyover of jet aircraft with one plane missing from the formation.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/Last_Salute/Ch10.htm (2478 words)

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		Although an admirer of MacArthur, Vandenberg felt the U.N. commander’s growing advocacy of military actions that would widen the war were ill advised.
		For example, Vandenberg and his staff never came up with new nighttime tactics to meet the Communists’ ability to move supplies under cover of darkness.
		It was such factors, along with a desire to maintain continuity of leadership in wartime, that led the president to extend Vandenberg’s appointment for two years, until 1953.
	www.state.nj.us /military/korea/biographies/vandenberg.html (1254 words)

	General Hoyt S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, born in Wisconsin 24 January 1899, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy 12 June 1923.
		He was Chief of Staff of the Air Force from 1948 to 1953 when he was retired for physical disability.
		General Harry Taylor (AP-145) (q.v.) was reacquired by the Navy from the Air Force as General Hoyt 8.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/g3/general_hoyt_s_vandenberg.htm (92 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg is nearly the length of two football fields and was used by both the U.S. Navy and Air Force as a troop transport ship, and then as a missile-tracking vessel.
		The 'Vandenberg' will lie in approximately 140 feet of water, while her superstructure will reach up to within 40 feet of the surface.
		This makes the 'Vandenberg' a dive that an open water student can make at the top, while still being a challenging dive for an advanced or 'tech' diver at the bottom.
	www.ifyoudive.com /news/newsarticle?ObjectID=6142515 (309 words)

	Hoyt S. Vandenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I concluded that Vandenberg was an exceptionally wellrounded officer: an outstanding pilot, accomplished planner and staff officer, effective commander, and passable diplomat.
		There are two other works on Vandenberg: dissertations by Jon A. Reynolds, "Education and Training for High Command: Hoyt S. Vandenberg's Early Career," Duke University, 1980; and Robert L. Smith, "The Influence of USAF Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg on United States National Security Policy," American University, 1965.
		Although little personal documentation is left from Vandenberg's early life, Reynolds did an indepth examination of the operational units that Vandenberg was assigned to during the interwar years.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/cc/vand.html (438 words)

	Missing man formation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In April 1954, United States Air Force General Hoyt Vandenberg was buried at Arlington National Cemetery without the traditional horse-drawn artillery caisson.
		Instead, Vandenberg was honored by a flyover of jet aircraft with one plane missing from the formation.
		Also in 1954, Captain Joseph McConnell was killed while testing a modified F-86 Sabre at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Missing_man_formation (490 words)

	Studies in Intelligence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Hoyt Vandenberg, the 47-year-old nephew of powerful Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg and General Eisenhower's intelligence chief since January, Souers saw just the man to give CIG the leadership and connections it needed.
		Vandenberg had learned the value of coordinated collection and analysis as commander of the 9th Air Force in the European war.
		By then Vandenberg had also begun his campaign to place the CIG on a firmer legal footing, an aspiration fulfilled early in his successor's term.
	www.odci.gov /csi/studies/95unclass/100Days.html (6466 words)

	goDutch.com :: Role respected U.S. Senate leader of the 1940s fondly remembered
		Vandenberg, a lawyer who became publisher of the former Grand Rapids Herald, was appointed a Senator in 1928 by Michigan governor Fred Green to fill a vacancy.
		Vandenberg was elected a few months later and re-elected three times to a six-year term.
		Interest in Vandenberg’s legacy has risen in recent years, coinciding with efforts by grocery chain CEO Hank Meijer who is writing a biography on GR’s famous son.
	www.godutch.com /windmill/newsItem.asp?id=118 (398 words)

	395thSMS
		In honor of the Air Force's second Chief of Staff, General Hoyt Vandenberg.
		Between the wars and as late as January 1957, the military reservation had reverted to its previous use for cattle and sheep grazing.Transformation of Camp Cooke into the nation's first space and ballistic missile operational and training base began in 1957 when it transferred to the United States Air Force.
		Vandenberg AFB is the only military base in the United States from which unmanned government and commercial satellites are launched into polar orbit.
	www.titan-ii.com /395thSMS.html (1305 words)

	Vandenberg, Hoyt S. (1899-1954)
		Vandenberg, Hoyt S. A resource of The Worlds of David Darling
		Vandenberg, Hoyt S. Career military aviator who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force (1948-53).
		As Air Force Chief of Staff he was a senior official in the DoD during the formative period of rocketry development and the work on intercontinental ballistic missiles.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/V/Vandenberg_Hoyt.html (199 words)

	Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, General, United States Air Force
		His wife, Gladys Rose Vandenberg (died January 9, 1978), started the concept of the "Arlington Ladies" while he was Air Force Chief of Staff.
		On February 18, 1943, General Vandenberg became chief of staff of the Northwest African Strategic Air Force and with this air force he flew on numerous missions over Tunisia, Italy, Sardinia, Sicily and Pantelleria during the North African campaign.
		Vandenberg assumed command of the Ninth Air Force.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /hsvanden.htm (1043 words)

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