Charles B . Stone III Lieutenant General Charles Bertody Stone III ( March 28 , 1904 – May 17 , 1992 ) was an officer in the US Air Force . Stone was born in Fort McPherson , Georgia . Early career . He graduated from the U . S . Military Academy on June 14 , 1927 and was commissioned a second lieutenant of Infantry . In September 1927 , General Stone was assigned with the 9th Infantry at Fort Sam Houston , Texas . Entering the Primary Flying School at Brooks Field , Texas in March 1929 , he graduated from the Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field , Texas a year later and was then assigned with the 11th Bomb Squadron at Rockwell Field , California . Entering the Air Corps Technical School at Chanute Field , Illinois in September 1931 , he graduated the following June and remained there as assistant to the director , Department of Mechanics . Assigned with the 64th Service Squadron at March Field , California in September 1932 , and the following month , General Stone joined the 31st Bomb Squadron there . A year later , he became post operations and engineering officer at Hamilton Field , California . From February to May 1934 , he was an air mail pilot at Oakland , California , and then joined the 70th Service Squadron at Hamilton Field , assuming command of it in July 1936 . General Stone was named engineering officer of the 7th Bomb Group there in October 1936 . Going to Luke Field , Hawaii in July 1937 , General Stone was station and group engineering officer and later became post and group material officer . Transferred to Wright Field , Ohio in July 1939 , he became a unit chief in the Field Service Section . Entering the Air Corps Tactical School at Field , Alabama in April 1940 , General Stone graduated the following June and returned to Wright Field as chief of the supply branch , Air Service Command , after which he was assigned with the Maintenance and Supply Division in the Office of the Assistant Chief of Air Staff at Air Corps headquarters , Washington , D . C . World War II . Ordered to the China - Burma - India Theater in August 1943 , General Stone was appointed chief of staff for the Eastern Air Command there the following January . In June 1945 , he was sent to China to organize new headquarters for the 14th Air Force " Flying Tigers " , assuming command of it two months later . Upon its deactivation that December , General Stone was ordered back to Washington for temporary duty with the U . S . Strategic Bombing Survey . Cold War . Joining the Air Defense Command in February 1946 , General Stone assumed command of the 2nd Air Force at Colorado Springs , Colorado . The following month he was named deputy commander and chief of staff ( relieved of latter duty on September 1 , 1947 ) of the Air Defense Command at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio , on October 6 , 1947 , he became director of maintenance , supply and services , and in December 1950 was appointed assistant to the commander . The following month , General Stone moved to Air Force headquarters , Washington , D . C . as director of maintenance , supply & services in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Materiel . In April 1951 , he was designated assistant for materiel program control to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Materiel . Named special assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff , Comptroller in July 1951 , later that month General Stone became deputy chief of staff , Comptroller , U . S . Air Force headquarters . Moving to Continental Air Command , Mitchel Air Force Base , New York , on December 15 , 1955 , General Stone became commander and on April 1 , 1956 was assigned additional duty as senior Air Force member , Military Staff Committee , United Nations . On July 2 , 1956 , he also became chairman , U . S . delegate , United Nations Military Staff Committee . Decorations and Awards . His decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal with oak leaf cluster , Legion of Merit , Distinguished Flying Cross , Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster , British Order of the Bath ( Companion ) , Chinese Tasheu Cloud Banner Medal and Lo Shu decoration . He is rated a command pilot and aircraft observer . President of the Harvard Business School Club of Washington , D . C . , in 1953 and 1954 , and a member of the executive council of the Harvard Business School Association from July 1955 to July 1958 , General Stone has been a director of the Air Force Aid Society , and appointed chairman of the board of the 14th Air Force Association from 1954 to 1957 . He retired on June 30 , 1957 and died on May 17 , 1992 .