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Thomas White was born in Minnesota and graduated from West Point in 1920 as an infantryman. He served in Panama before completing flight training in 1925. He was assistant military attache in Moscow in 1934-1935 and Italy in 1935-1937 and was a 1938 graduate of the Air Corps Tactical School. He attended the Command and General Staff School in 1938-1939.
White was military attache in Brazil when war broke out. He returned to the United States in March 1942 and and was promoted to brigadier general in November, serving as chief of staff of 3 Air Force. He became deputy commander of 13 Air Force in September 1944 and was involved in aerial operations in New Guinea, Leyte, Luzon, and Borneo. He was commander of 7 Air Force in June 1945, when it transferred from the Marianas to Okinawa.
Postwar White reached the rank of full general and was appointed chief of staff for the Air Force in 1953. He oversaw the early development of strategic missiles before retiring in 1961.
| 1901
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Born in Minnesota |
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| 1920 |
Second
lieutenant |
Graduates from West Point |
| 1924 |
Flight training |
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| 1927 |
Colonel |
Language student, Peiping |
| 1931 |
Assistant to the Chief, Section
II, Plans Division, Office of the Chief of the Air Corps |
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| 1932 |
Assistant engineering officer,
Bolling Field, District of Columbia |
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| 1934 |
Assistant military attache,
Russia |
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| 1935 |
Assistant military attache,
Italy and Greece |
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| 1937 |
Air Corps Tactical School |
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| 1938 |
Command and General Staff School |
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| 1939 |
Intelligence Section,
Information Division, Office of the Chief of the Air Corps |
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| 1939 |
Chief, Intelligence Section, Information Division, Office of the Chief of the Air Corps | |
| 1940 |
Military attache, Brazil |
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| 1942 |
Assistant chief of staff for
Operations and Training (G-3), 3 Air Force, Florida |
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| 1942 |
Chief of staff, 3 Air Force,
Florida |
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| 1944 |
Assistant Chief of the Air Staff
for Intelligence, Headquarters U.S. Army Air Forces |
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| 1944 |
Deputy commander, 13 Air Force, Noemfoor |
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| 1945 |
Major general |
Commander, 7 Air Force, Okinawa |
| 1946 |
Chief of staff, Pacific Air
Command, Japan |
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| 1947 |
Chief of staff, Far East Air
Forces, Japan |
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| 1948 |
Commander, 5 Air Force, Nagoya |
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| 1948 |
Director of Legislation and
Liason, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force |
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| 1950 |
Joint Strategic Survey Committee |
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| 1950 |
Special Assistant to the Deputy
Chief of Staff for Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force |
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| 1951 |
Director of plans, Office of the
Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force |
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| 1951 |
Deputy Chief of Staff for
Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force |
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| 1953 |
Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air
Force |
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| 1957 |
General |
Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force |
| 1961 |
Retires |
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| 1965 |
Dies |
References
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