Nathan F. Twining June 30, 1953 - June 30, 1957 Nathan F. Twining graduated from West Point in November 1918, later transferred to the Air Service, and completed flight training in 1924. In February 1942, Maj. Gen. Henry H. AHap Arnold selected newly promoted Colonel Twining to be his assistant executive and three months later appointed him Director of War Organization and Movements. In July 1942, Twining became Chief of Staff to Maj. Gen. Millard F. Harmon, Commander of the Army Forces in the South Pacific Area. Twining took command of the Thirteenth Air Force in the Solomon Islands in
Nathan F. Twining June 30, 1953 - June 30, 1957 Nathan F. Twining graduated from West Point in November 1918, later transferred to the Air Service, and completed flight training in 1924. In February 1942, Maj. Gen. Henry H. AHap Arnold selected newly promoted Colonel Twining to be his assistant executive and three months later appointed him Director of War Organization and Movements. In July 1942, Twining became Chief of Staff to Maj. Gen. Millard F. Harmon, Commander of the Army Forces in the South Pacific Area. Twining took command of the Thirteenth Air Force in the Solomon Islands in January 1943 and, in July 1943, became tactical commander of all Army, Navy, Marine, and Allied Air Forces in the South Pacific, one of the first joint air commands. In December 1943, General Arnold selected him to command Fifteenth Air Force in Italy, and in June 1945, Arnold assigned him to command Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific theater, which flew BB29 Superfortresses against the Japanese home islands and dropped the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war ended, Twining became Commanding General of Air Materiel Command and, in October 1947, Commanding General of the Alaskan Department. After a brief stint as acting Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel at Air Force Headquarters, he was appointed Air Force Vice Chief of Staff on October 10, 1950, with promotion to general. In June 1953, Twining succeeded Hoyt Vandenberg as Chief of Staff of the Air Force. In that position, he helped expand the nation's worldwide network of air bases for strategic bombers, played a major role in forming United States policy in Indochina, and gained a reputation for easing the acrimonious controversies that characterized interservice relations in the immediate postwar years. In 1957, President Eisenhower named Twining Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the first Air Force officer to hold that post. During his tenure, Congress passed the Department of Defense Reorganization
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