When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Hoyt Vandenberg - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt_Vandenberg

    Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg (January 24, 1899 – April 2, 1954) was a United States Air Force general. [1] He served as the second Chief of Staff of the Air Force , and the second Director of Central Intelligence .

  3. Hoyt S. Vandenberg Jr. - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt_S._Vandenberg_Jr.

    Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg Jr. (born August 12, 1928) is a retired major general in the United States Air Force. Early life and education.

  4. USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../USNS_General_Hoyt_S._Vandenberg

    The unnamed C4-S-A1-design transport was laid down under a United States Maritime Commission contract (MC Hull No. 702) on 22 February 1943 at Richmond, California, by Kaiser Co., Inc., Yard 3; named General Harry Taylor (AP-145) on 2 October 1943; launched on 10 October 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Mamie M. McHugh; acquired by the Navy on 29 March 1944; placed in ferry commission on 1 April 1944 ...

  5. Short snorter - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_snorter

    General Hoyt Vandenberg's $1 short snorter. A short snorter is a banknote inscribed by people traveling together on an aircraft. The tradition was started by Alaskan bush flyers in the 1920s and spread through the military and commercial aviation.

  6. List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and...

    A fully fueled Martin XSM-68-3-MA Titan I ICBM, 58-2254, a Lot V missile, V-2, [43] being lowered into a silo at the Operational System Test Facility, Vandenberg AFB, California, following pre-launch tests, the ninth attempt at completing this test, [44] dropped to the bottom of the underground launch tube when the elevator failed. The missile ...

  7. List of Strategic Air Command bases - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Strategic_Air...

    1.22 Cooke AFB (Vandenberg AFB, 4 Oct 1958), Lompoc, CA (T). ... Current Namesake: General Hoyt Sanford Vandenburg; Original Namesake: General Philip St. George Cooke.

  8. Hot (American vocal group) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_(American_vocal_group)

    Hot was a vocal trio based in Los Angeles, California, whose membership was Gwen Owens (born June 19, 1953), Cathy Carson (née Catherine Sue Fiebach) (October 8, 1953 – June 26, 2014), and Juanita Curiel (born February 25, 1953). [1] The group had a million-selling hit single in 1977 entitled "Angel in Your Arms".

  9. Tampa Executive Airport - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Executive_Airport

    Tampa Executive Airport (ICAO: KVDF, FAA LID: VDF), formerly known as Vandenberg Airport, is located in unincorporated Hillsborough County, Florida, six nautical miles (11 km) east of the central business district of Tampa. [1] VDF covers 411 acres (166 ha) of land. [1]