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Edward Higgins White, Sr. (22 May 1901 – 1 November 1978) was a United States Air Force general who served in the United States Army Air Forces Budget Office during World War II and commanded the 1503rd Air Transport Wing in the Korean War. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point class of 1924, he was commissioned in the Army Air Corps and learned to fly both airships and airplanes. He attended Harvard Business School, from which he received his Master of Business Administration in 1937, and spent World War II working as a budget and financial officer, first at the Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Ohio, and then in the Office of the Chief of United States Army Air Forces in Washington, D.C. He transferred to the United States Air Force when it was created in 1947. After service in the Korean War he became chief of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service in New York City. He then served as commander of the 3750th Technical Training Wing at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, until he retired in 1957 with the rank of major general. ==Early life and career== Edward Higgins White was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on 22 May 1901, the second of three sons of Alexander and Cecilia Higgins White. He had an older brother, James Cecillus White, who attended the United States Military Academy at West Point but failed to graduate with the class of 1919. James was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the infantry and eventually retired as a colonel in 1953. His younger brother, John Alexander White, attended the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. A guard at the Embassy of the United States, Beijing, when the Pacific War broke out on 8 December 1941, he spent four years in captivity, but eventually retired with the rank of colonel. Appointed from Indiana, Edward White followed his older brother to West Point, which he entered on 1 July 1920. He graduated 270th out of 405 in the class of 1924 on 12 June 1924, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army Air Corps. He attended the Air Corps Primary Flying School at Brooks Field, Texas, the Air Corps Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field, Texas, and finally the Air Corps Balloon and Airship School at Scott Field, Illinois, from which he graduated as a Balloon Observer and Airship Pilot on 20 July 1926.〔 He married Mary Haller, a girl from Fort Wayne, on 22 July 1925. They had three children: a daughter, Jeanne, born in 1927, and sons Edward Higgins White II, born in 1930, and James Blair White, born in 1942. In 1927, White became the first man to land a dirigible on water, in order to rescue a fellow balloonist. After duty at Scott Field as a flying instructor until 1 July 1929, he attended the Air Corps Primary Flying School at Kelly Field, graduating on 28 February 1930, and then the Advanced Flying School there. He was promoted to first lieutenant on 5 October 1929, and on graduation on 21 June 1930, he was rated as an Airplane Pilot.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Major General Edward H. White )〕 White remained at Kelly Field as assistant post adjutant of the Air Corps Training Center until 12 June 1931, when he was posted to the 6th Pursuit Squadron at Wheeler Field, Hawaii, becoming its commander on 12 September 1931, and was adjutant of the 18th Pursuit Group as well until 10 June 1933. He returned to the United States in August 1933, and entered the Army Industrial College. He graduated on 12 June 1934, and was sent to Chicago as a procurement planning representative. He was promoted to captain on 1 August 1935, and then entered Harvard Business School, from which he received his Master of Business Administration degree on 8 June 1937. He was then posted to the headquarters of the Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Ohio, as Assistant Budget Officer.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Higgins White, Sr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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