\"Strategic Air Command\" Bruce K. Holloway Hand Signed 3X5 Card For Sale

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\"Strategic Air Command\" Bruce K. Holloway Hand Signed 3X5 Card:
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Up for sale "Strategic Air Command" Bruce K. Holloway Hand Signed 3X5 Card.

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General Bruce Keener Holloway (September 1, 1912 –

September 30, 1999) was a United States Air Force general. A West Point graduate, he was a fighter ace with

the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and later

served as Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Air Command. Holloway was one of two children born

to Frank P. Holloway, a mill owner, and Elizabeth Keener, a homemaker. He

graduated from Knoxville High School in 1929 and studied engineering for

two years at the University of Tennessee before attending Marion Military Institute, preparing for appointment to

the United States Military Academy, where he graduated in 1937.

Assigned to the Army Air Corps, he received his pilot wings in

1938 at Kelly Field, San

Antonio, Texas, then served two years with the Sixth Pursuit

Squadron and 18th Pursuit Group in Hawaii before

taking a postgraduate course in aeronautical engineering at the California Institute of Technology. After The US entered World War II in

December 1941, Holloway was sent to China to observe Chennault's American Volunteer Group (AVG), the Flying Tigers.

He became the commander of the 23rd Fighter Group USAAF. During his China tour, Holloway earned status as

a fighter ace, shooting down 13 Japanese planes. He returned to

the US in 1944. As commander of the Army Air Forces' first jet-equipped fighter

group in 1946, Holloway pioneered in this new field of tactical jet air

operations. After graduation from the National War College in 1951, he progressed through key

staff assignments in both operations and development fields at Headquarters

U.S. Air Force. Later, as director of operational requirements, he played a key

role in preparing and evaluating proposals for many aircraft and missiles. Holloway

spent four years in Tactical Air Command (TAC) as deputy commander of both

the 9th and 12th Air

Forces, and in 1961 he was named deputy commander in chief of

the U.S. Strike Command at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.

Later in that assignment, he also fulfilled additional responsibilities as

deputy commander in chief of the Middle East/Southern Asia and Africa South of

the Sahara Command. 

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