Dan C . Ogle Major General Dan Clark Ogle ( October 9 , 1901 – August 30 , 1990 ) was the third Surgeon General of the United States Air Force . Biography . Ogle was born at Keithsburg , Illinois , in 1901 . He graduated from Eureka College , Illinois , in 1924 , where he was initiated a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon International Fraternity ( Ronald Reagan was initiated at the same chapter five years later ) . He received his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1929 . Appointed a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps Reserve that June , General Ogle was assigned to medical duty at William Beaumont General Hospital at El Paso , Texas , and received his Regular commission as a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps July 1 , 1930 . Entering the School of Aviation Medicine at Brooks Field , Texas , in April 1931 , he graduated that July ; entered the Army Medical School at Washington , D . C . , three months later and graduated in January 1932 ; and four months later graduated from the Medical Field Service School at Carlisle Barracks , Pennsylvania . Assigned to Chanute Field , Illinois , as flight surgeon and war officer at the station hospital , he was named post surgeon in May 1936 . The following November he went to Luke Field , Hawaii , where he served as post surgeon . In March 1939 he was appointed war officer at the Army and Navy General Hospital , Hot Springs , Arkansas , and in June 1941 resumed his position as post surgeon at Chanute . Moving to Miami Beach , Florida , in April 1942 , General Ogle was named post surgeon of the Technical Training Center , and the following March assumed command of the Army Air Force Regional Station Hospital at Coral Gables , Florida . Going overseas in December 1944 , he was appointed staff surgeon of the 15th Air Force in Italy . Returning to the United States the following September , he was named chief of the Plans and Services Division in the Office of the Air Surgeon , Washington , D . C . Transferred to Maxwell Field , Alabama , in November 1945 , General Ogle was named post surgeon , and a month later was appointed command surgeon of the Air University there , in addition . In December 1946 he relinquished his duties as post surgeon , retaining his position as command surgeon . Entering the Air War College there in August 1948 , he graduated in June 1949 . The following December General Ogle was named deputy surgeon general of the Air Force , and in July 1949 was transferred from the Army to the Air Force . Going to Wiesbaden , Germany , in March 1953 , General Ogle was named surgeon for the U . S . Air Forces in Europe . On July 15 , 1954 , General Ogle was designated surgeon general of the U . S . Air Force , with headquarters at Washington , D . C . General Ogle can be seen at the beginning of the 1956 movie " On the Threshold of Space " introducing the aeromedical theme of the movie . Awards and decorations . He was awarded the Bronze Star and is rated a flight surgeon and aircraft observer ( Medical ) . General Ogle was a member of the American Medical Association , Association of Military Surgeons , and the Aero - Medical Association . He died April 30 , 1990 .