Today in USAFA history: 1958 -- Colonel Albert Stolz, retiring Director of the Air Force Academy Construction Agency, receives the Distinguished Service Medal from General Curtis E. LeMay, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff. Colonel Stolz was given the nation’s highest peacetime award for his work since 1954 directing all planning, designing and building of the Academy. 1958 -- The Eagle and Fledglings Statue is dedicated. The two ton sculpture by Curt Mose was given to the Academy by personnel of the Air Training Command. It contains the inscription by Austin Dusty Miller, “Man’s Flight Through Life is Sustained by the Power of his Knowledge.” 1968 -- First Lieutenant John Albright, Class of ’67, is presumed killed when his C-123 collides with a B-57 while on a night operational mission near Ban Nampakhon, Laos. He was missing until declared dead on 17 May 1979, and was promoted to the rank of major while missing. His name appears on the War Memorial on the Academy Terrazzo. 1968 -- Captain Charles Griffin, Class of ’62, is killed when his OV-10 crashes northwest of Saigon while attempting to return to base after colliding with an AC-47. His name appears on the War Memorial on the Academy Terrazzo. 2013 -- Business Insider publishes “The World’s Most Spectacularly Modern Places of Worship.” The article features the Cadet Chapel, saying, “The United States Air Force Cadet Academy Chapel in Colorado Springs, Col., is a highly regarded example of modernist architecture. It consists of 17 towers, each composed of 100 identical tetrahedrons and has separate chapels for practitioners of various religions.”
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 21:00:00 +0000
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