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Richard Mattern Montgomery was born on 15 December, 1911 in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, is a United States Air Force general (1911–1987). Discover Richard Mattern Montgomery's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?
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Richard Mattern Montgomery (December 15, 1911 – August 27, 1987), was a lieutenant general in the United States Air Force, and chief-of-staff of the U. S. Strategic Air Command from 1952 to 1956.
He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, graduating with a lieutenant's commission in 1933.
One year later he completed pilot training at Kelly Field, Texas.
This was the beginning of an active flying career in which Montgomery logged more than 10,000 hours in more than 80 types of aircraft, including the KC-135 jet tanker (military counterpart of the Boeing 707), B-47 and B-52 intercontinental jet bombers.
A 1947 graduate of the Air War College, Montgomery became a member of the Joint Strategic Plans and Operations Group for General Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo.
Throughout his earlier years in the air corps, Montgomery held varied staff and command assignments.
His first wartime job was concerned with organization of the aviation cadet training program.
During this period he established a model Basic Flying School at Independence, Kansas.
Later he was assigned to the Office of the Assistant Chief, Air Staff Training, Army Air Force headquarters in the Pentagon, where his extensive field experience was brought to bear on the entire Air Force wartime training program.
Returning to the U.S. in 1949, he was assigned to Biggs Air Force Base in Texas and early in 1950 became deputy commander of the 97th Bombardment Wing located there.
His assignment to SAC headquarters followed that tour of duty.
A veteran of more than 30 years Air Force service, Montgomery was twice awarded the Legion of Merit while serving with the Strategic Air Command.
The following year he joined the 51st Fighter Wing at Naha Air Force Base, Okinawa.
The assignment which did most to shape his subsequent career was that of chief of staff, Headquarters, Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, in September 1952, a post he held until September 1956.
As a principal staff assistant to then SAC commander in chief General Curtis E. LeMay, Montgomery participated in the buildup of SAC into the most powerful military force in the world history.
In 1956 he was assigned as deputy commander of the 2d Air Force (SAC).
In August 1959 he was named assistant vice chief of staff, Headquarters U.S. Air Force.
He served for two years in this capacity under his previous commander General Curtis E. LeMay, who was then vice chief of staff.
At the end of his Pentagon tour he was presented with the Distinguished Service Medal by General LeMay, U.S, Air Force chief of staff.
For the next year he continued in the same job when General Frederic H. Smith became vice chief of staff.
He was vice commander-in-chief of the United States Air Force in Europe, from 1962 until he retired in 1966.
He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia.
Montgomery was assigned as vice commander in chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe, at Wiesbaden AB, Germany, September 1, 1962, with promotion to the grade of lieutenant general.
Flying then the new F-80 jet "Shooting Star" aircraft, the 51st Jet Fighter Wing pioneered in long overwater mass jet training flights in the Far East under Montgomery's leadership.
Following this two-year tour, he became commander of the 3d Air Division at Guam, with responsibility for SAC Forces West of the 180th meridian.
