1.15 cu ft
Call No. 168.7047
IRIS Nos. 127308-127323
Lieutenant General. USAF, 1942-1973. Born in Monett, MO. BS, United States Military Academy, 1940. Armed Forces Staff College, 1949; National War College, 1956. Served to grade of Private, Coast Artillery Corps, National Guard (MO), 1934-1936. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, June 1940; transferred to Air Corps, December 1942. Career assignments include: various duties as company and field grade officer, 1942-1949; successively Deputy Director and Director of Personnel, HQ Strategic Air Command (SAC), 1949-1952; various SAC units, 1952-1961; Director of Personnel, HQ SAC, 1961; successively Deputy Director and Director of Operations, HQ SAC, 1961-1964; Deputy Commander, Eighth Air Force, 1964-1965; Deputy Commander, Fifteenth Air Force, 1965-1966; Commander, 2nd Air Division, 1966-1969; Deputy Chief of Staff, Personnel, HQ USAF, 1969-1970, Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, HQ USAF, 1970-1973. Retired 1973.
Official papers relating to Russell's Air Force career. Includes official correspondence (1946-1969), some speeches by Russell (1964-1966), and minutes of various unofficial boards (1963-1964). Includes correspondence between Russell and General Holloway, Commander-in-Chief of SAC (1966-1969), and materials on automatic data processing in the USAF (1961-1971). Also includes some copies of Russell's personnel records and some photograph albums, primarily from duty as Assistant Vice Chief of Staff (1970-1973).