Colonel Daniel V. Macdonald
Daniel V. Macdonald was born 11 December 1919 inMarquette, Michigan. He lived in Portland Oregon from 1921 to 1937. He graduated from Grant High School, Portland, Oregon in 1937. He attended the University of California at Los Angeles from 1937 to 1940. He entered the Army Air Corps in 1940 as a Flying Cadet. He graduated from Kelly Field Advanced Flying School, San Antonio, Texas in November 1940.
| Military Assignments | |
| 1940-1942 | Flying instructor at Kelly Field |
| 1942-1943 | Trained in B-17 Flying Fortress and flew 52 combat missions, 350 combat hoours, in North Africa and Italy as Squadron Commander. Participated in the following campaigns: Tunisia, Sicily, Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno, and air war in the Balkans. |
| 1944-1945 | Director of Operations and Training at B-29 Combat Crew Training School, Grand Island, Nebraska |
| 1946-1947 | Attended UCLA in active military status. Received B.A. in International Relations. |
| 1948-1950 | Staff Officer in SAC Operational Plans Branch, Operations Division, Headquarters USAF, Washington, D.C. |
| 1951 | Staff Officer in the Northern European Regional Planning Committee, Joint American Military Advisory Group, London, England. |
| 1951-1953 | Chief of Plans Division in Headquarters, Allied Air Forces, Central Europe, Fontainebleau, France, under General Norstad. |
| 1953-1956 | Staff Officer on Evaluation Staff, Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. |
| 1956-1958 | Deputy Commander, 6th Bomb Wing, Walker AFB, New Mexico (SAC). |
| Jan-Jul 59 | Senior SAC Representative to the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Theater, at Strategic Air Command X-Ray, Honolulu, Hawaii. |
| Sep 59 to Present | Commander, 4128th Strategic Wing, Amarillo AFB, Texas. |
| Promotions | |
| 2nd Lieutenant - December 1940 | |
| 1st Lieutenant - April 1942 | |
| Captain - October 1942 | |
| Major - September 1943 | |
| Lt. Colonel - May 1945 | |
| Colonel - January 1951 | |
| Decorations | |
| Distinguished Flying Cross | |
| Air Medal and 9 Oak Leaf Clusters | |
| Presidentiial Unit Citation | |
| Carious Campaign Ribons | |
| Rated Command Pilot | |
| Over 5,000 flying hours | |
| Over 1,000 jet flying hours | |
| Member Of | |
| Phi Delta Theta | |
| Caterpillar Club | |
Married in 1948 to Ruth Wilson of Portland, Oregon, who graduated from Lincoln High School in Portland in 1944; Stephens College of Columbia, Missouri in 1946; and Mt. Holyoke College of South Hadley, Massachusetts in 1948.