Richard W . Fellows Brigadier General Richard W . Fellows ( 1914 – 1998 ) was a United States Air Force officer who served during World War II and the Cold War . He was born in Algoma , Wisconsin , in 1914 . He graduated from Algoma High School in 1931 and attended the University of Wisconsin for a year and a half . Early career . In 1933 , he received a Congressional appointment to the United States Military Academy . He graduated In 1937 , ranking 88th in a class of 298 and assigned to the Cavalry . Second Lieutenant Fellows ' first duty station was Randolph Field , Texas , where he attended pilot training school . He completed his advanced training in Pursuit at Kelly Field , Texas , and received his pilot wings in 1938 . He eventually was rated as a command pilot . Lieutenant Fellows ' first assignment after Kelly Field was Nichols Field in the Philippines . He earned a combat observer rating as a member of the 2d Observation Squadron there and transferred to the Philippine Air Depot , which he commanded as a captain upon outbreak of World War II . Battle of the Philippines ( 1941 – 1942 ) . In December 1941 when Nichols Field became untenable , he transferred his depot to the outskirts of Manila . Depot assembly and repair operations were conducted along boulevards used as runways and in various buildings converted to shops . Although Manila was declared an " Open City " December 25 , 1941 , the depot continued its operations and evacuation activities to the Bataan Peninsula up until January 1 , 1942 , when the last P - 40 Warhawk under repair was flown to Bataan as the victorious Japanese were entering the city . On Bataan , Captain Fellows , after reorganizing the remnant of the Philippine Air Depot , was assigned as deputy of the 24th Pursuit Group organized as Infantry and charged with a beach defense mission . At the time of the fall of Bataan , Captain Fellows was serving as a pilot in the " Bamboo Fleet " , composed of a handful of small civilian and military aircraft carrying supplies into Bataan from Southern Philippine bases and evacuating selected persons from the peninsula . His last flight from Bataan was made the morning of April 8 , 1942 , the day the fighting lines collapsed . Bataan surrendered the following day . Mediterranean Theater . After several months of hospitalization Captain Fellows was returned to duty in August 1942 as squadron commander in the 30th Bombardment Group , which he later commanded , at March Field , California . He attended the First Air Staff Officers ' course sponsored by General Arnold for combat experienced officers in the fall of 1943 and was assigned , following the courses , to the Mediterranean Theatre . As deputy and commander of the 376th Bombardment Group , he was awarded the Silver Star , Distinguished Flying Gross with oak leak cluster , and Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters for his services . Other awards or honors for this period included a combat promotion to the grade of colonel , the French Croix de Guerre with Palm , the War Cross ( Greece ) , and Pilot Wings of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force . He was appointed Deputy A - 3 of the Fifteenth Air Force in Italy , returning to the United States and duty in the War Department General Staff after the war in Europe was concluded . United States Air Force . He attended Stanford University , receiving a master ' s degree in the School of Education in 1948 . He served a two - month internship in the Personnel Departments of Douglas Aircraft Corporation and the Standard Oil Company of California , after which he was assigned in personnel and programming activities in Headquarters Continental Air Command at Mitchel Air Force Base , New York , until 1952 . He graduated from the Air War College in 1953 and spent the next three years in Newfoundland as commander , first of Pepperrell Air Force Base and later Ernest Harmon Air Force Base . He was assigned to the Directorate of Programs in Headquarters U . S . Air Force in 1956 , serving as deputy director until 1961 when he was reassigned to Headquarters Air Force Logistics Command , Wright - Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio , as deputy director of maintenance engineering . He was promoted to brigadier general in May 1960 . From July 1962 until November of the same year , General Fellows was deputy director of plans and programs at Headquarters Air Force Logistics Command Headquarters . In November 1962 he became director . In July 1964 he became the deputy director for logistics , Joint Staff , Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . He retired on 1 September 1966 . Effective Dates of Promotion . Rank Temporary Permanent