Edward Higgins White, Sr.
Edward Higgins White 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.
Edward Higgins White was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, onMay 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 onDecember 1941, he spent four years in captivity, but eventually retired with the rank of colonel.
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