Hoyt Vandenberg
United States general
Died when: 55 years 68 days (662 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg (January 24, 1899 – April 2, 1954) was a United States Air Force general.He served as the second Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the second Director of Central Intelligence.
During World War II, Vandenberg was the commanding general of the Ninth Air Force, a tactical air force in England and in France, supporting the Army, from August 1944 until V-E Day.
Vandenberg Space Force Base on the central coast of California is named after him.In 1946, he was briefly the U.S.
Chief of Military Intelligence.He was the nephew of Arthur H.Vandenberg, a former U.S.Senator from Michigan.
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