Richard C. Lindsay

Richard Clark Lindsay (31 October 19053 November 1990) was a lieutenant general in the United States Air Force (USAF). During World War II he served in the Air War Plans Division and the Operations Division of the War Department General Staff, and on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He served on the staff of the U.S. Army Strategic Air Forces on Guam, the Pacific Air Command in Manila and the Far East Air Forces in Tokyo, and commanded the 316th Bombardment Wing on Okinawa. From 1957 to 1960, he was the NATO commander of Allied Air Forces Southern Europe.

Early life and career Richard Clark Lindsay was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 31 October 1905. He attended West High School, from which he graduated in 1924, and then Carleton College, from which he graduated in 1926, and finally the University of Minnesota, from which he graduated in 1928. He was commissioned as a reserve second lieutenant in the infantry on 11 June 1928. On 28 June 1928 he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps. He completed the Primary and Basic Flying School at March Field, California, and from the Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field, Texas, on 27 June 1929. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the air reserve upon graduation from Kelly, and in the Regular Army Air Corps on 14 September 1929.

On 10 May 1943 Lindsay was assigned to the Joint War Plans Committee, an organ of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, serving as its chief from 1 July 1944 to 27 June 1945. In this role he was involved in the preparation of studies for used by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Combined Chiefs of Staff to determine the nature of operations that the Allies of World War II would carry out, and he served as the United States Army Air Forces representative on the Joint Staff Planners of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was promoted to brigadier general on 10 September 1944. His papers are held by Syracuse University.

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