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Gen. Bernard A. Schriever

Gen. Schriever discusses missile guidance development with experts at Holloman AFB, N.M. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Gen. Bernard A. Schriever

The “Father of Air Force space and missiles” with some of the systems created under his leadership. His management philosophy made rapid development possible. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Gen. Bernard A. Schriever

Gen. Schriever (right) inspects an experimental missile warhead reentry vehicle in 1959. Creating an effective nuclear-armed missile force was one of his main goals. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Gen. Bernard A. Schriever

Schriever earned his wings in 1932 and flew B-17 bombers in WWII. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Dr. Robert H. Goddard

Goddard watches a New Mexico launch from a safe distance. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Dr. Robert H. Goddard

Goddard tows a rocket to its launch tower near Roswell, N.M., around 1932. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Dr. Robert H. Goddard

Goddard and his team work on a rocket without its out casing in Roswell, N.M. in 1940. Left to right are Goddard, machinist Nils Ljungquist, machinist and Goddard’s brother-in-law Albert Kisk; and welder Charles Mansur. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Dr. Robert H. Goddard

Goddard with supporters in New Mexico, 1935. (left to right) Assistant Albert Kisk, financier Harry Guggenheim, Goddard, Charles Lindbergh and assistants Nils Ljungquist and Charles Mansur. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Dr. Robert H. Goddard

The first liquid-fueled rocket featured the thrust chamber and nozzle located above the fuel supply, with gasoline and liquid oxygen fed to the engine by tubes forming the rocket’s frame. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Dr. Robert H. Goddard

Goddard with the same 1926 rocket in its launch frame, Worcester, Mass. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Dr. Robert H. Goddard

Dr. Goddard with his 1926 rocket, the first liquid-fueled rocket. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Dr. Robert H. Goddard

Robert Goddard was a theoretical physicist as well as a talented engineer. He taught at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., beginning in 1914, and became director of the school’s Physical Laboratory in 1923.
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Dr. Robert H. Goddard

Dr. Robert H. Goddard
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Gen. Curtis E. LeMay

Gen. Curtis E. LeMay. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Gen. Arnold views "Memphis Belle"®

Gen. Hap Arnold, commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces, examining the "Mempis Belle" after it returned to the United States. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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John Glenn

John Glenn by the tail of his battle-damaged Marine Corps F9F "Panther" during the summer of 1953. The plane had 714 holes in it from enemy shrapnel. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Operation Frantic

MSgt. John M. Bassett, Lenin Boykov of Leningrad, and MSgt. Michael Cajolda service a visiting task force bomber. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Operation Frantic

Sgt. S. Weinschenker and TSgt. William Topps talk to a 10-year-old boy who had been in uniform as an A/A loader for three years. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Operation Frantic

Russian officers chat with Col. Barton, commanding officer of the 483rd Bomb Group, and Col. Rice of the 2nd Bomb Group at Mirgorod. The girl in the center is an interpreter. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Operation Frantic

The Soviets turned out to be expert volleyball players, and every night in the courtyard of Eastern Command HQ at Poltava, there were fast mixed games. Player fifth from the right at bottom is Gen. Ira Eaker. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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