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Item Name : Nikon RF S2 1st version case with “Demo Tape” on back mark “GEN. C. E. MCCARTY”
Reference : MAJOR
GENERAL CHESTER E. MCCARTY
Retired March 1, 1966, Died April 5, 1999,ajor General Chester E.
McCarty of Portland, Oregon, assumed duties as chief of staff for U.S.
Air Forces in Europe in February 1963. He came to Germany from
Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C., where he served an
assistant chief of staff for Reserve Forces.
General McCarty was born in 1905 in Pendleton, Ore., and graduated from
Northwestern College of Law in Portland in 1929. Active in the Oregon
National Guard for many years, he advanced from an Infantry private to
battery commander of Artillery, holding all enlisted ranks through
master sergeant. His reserve commissioned status dates from 1926.
Assistant attorney general of Oregon from 1930 to 1936, General McCarty
was elected state senator in 1942, but declined to serve when he was
called to active duty as an Army Air Corps captain that same year.
During World War II, he served as squadron commander and operations
officer at Morrison Field, Florida, and at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico.
He was a staff officer with the North African Wing of the Air Transport
Command, and later, commander of a chain of air bases in the Middle
East. On his return to the United States in 1945, he commanded the
"brass hat" transport group at Washington National Airport.
Returning to civilian life in 1946, General McCarty resumed practice as
head of a Portland law firm, and became active in the Air Force Reserve
as commander of the 305th Air Division and later of the 403d Troop
Carrier Wing. He was national president of the Air Reserve Association
from 1949 to 1950.
He was recalled to active duty in 1951 as commander of the 403d Troop
Carrier Wing, and flew combat airlift missions in Korea. In 1952, when
the 403d Wing deployed to the Far East, General McCarty assumed command
of the 315th Air Division (Combat Cargo) in Japan and directed the
Korean Airlift. In 1953 and 1954, General McCarty also commanded U.S.
Air Force airlift operations in support of the French in Indo-China,
including support for the massive airdrops at Dien Bien Phu.
Returning to the United States in 1954, General McCarty became commander
of Tactical Air Command's Eighteenth Air Force at Donaldson Air Force
Base, South Carolina. He flew many of the C-124 Globemaster airlift
mission's which built the Dewline in the Arctic in 1955 through more
than 700 landings on frozen lakes and bays
from Alaska to Baffinland,
and directed TAC airlift operations throughout the world with a fleet of
C-124s, C-130s and C-123s.
He was pilot of the first Air Force plane to fly over the South Pole on
October 26, 1956, airdropping the first load of buildings, supplies and
equipment for the base at the South Pole on Operation Deep Freeze.
From 1957 to 1959, General McCarty commanded Tactical Air Command's
Twelfth Air Force at Waco, Texas, the world's first all supersonic
force. In 1958, be deployed a major TAC composite air strike force to
the Far East during the Formosa Straits crisis, many of the force of jet
fighter, bomber and reconnaissance aircraft crossing the Pacific in
less than 17 hours flying time by air-to-air refueling.
General McCarty assumed command of the Fourteenth Flying Tiger Air Force
at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, in October 1959 after five years as a
TAC Air Force commander. A year later the unit was discontinued as part
of a general reorganization of the Continental Air Command and General
McCarty assumed his Pentagon position.
General McCarty is a command pilot with more than 12,000 flying hours,
including 469 hours of combat time. He has flown almost every type of
Air Force aircraft, including the supersonic F-100 and F-104 jet
fighters, and has piloted many types of airlines jet aircraft.
McCarty, Chester E, Born :12/31/1905, Died: 04/05/1999, US Air Force,
Major General,
Residence: Redmond, Washington, Section 30, Grave 562-LH. Buried in
Arlington National Cemetery on 05/24/1999.
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