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Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Hoyt Vandenberg.
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, and the father of Hoyt S. Vandenberg Jr., a retired major general in the United States Air Force.