Elwood R. Quesada papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2450
Subjects: United States. Air Force. IX Fighter Command; Nuclear weapons; B-36 bomber; United States. Air Force. Board of Review for Tactical Operations; United States; World War, 1939-1945; United States. Air Force. IX Tactical Air Command; Armed Forces; United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Joint Task Force-3; Testing; American Aerial operations; United States. Federal Aviation Administration
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, reports, personnel file, charts, drawings, and other papers documenting Quesada's career as a U.S. Air Force officer and as director of the Federal Aviation Administration.  Subjects include his service as commanding general of the IX Fighter Command and the IX Tactical Air Command in North Africa and in Europe during World War II, unification of the armed forces, the B-36 bomber investigation, Quesada's command of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Task Force-3 engaged in conducting a series of atomic tests on the Pacific atoll of Eniwetok, and work of the Air Force Board of Review for Tactical Operations.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Elwood R. Quesada, 1954-1960.

Air Force officer and public official.  Died 1993.

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