John C. Meyer
Military Person
1919 – 1975
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Who was John C. Meyer?
General John Charles Meyer was an American World War II flying ace, and later the commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command and director of the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. SAC was the United States' major nuclear deterrent force with bombers, tankers and reconnaissance aircraft and intercontinental ballistic missiles. The Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff coordinated the nation's nuclear war plans and developed the Single Integrated Operations Plan.
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- Born
- Apr 3, 1919
Brooklyn - Also known as
- John Meyer
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Dartmouth College
- Air War College
- Lived in
- Brooklyn
- Died
- Dec 2, 1975
Los Angeles
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on July 23, 2013
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