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美国参谋长联席会議主席雷德福海軍上将到今年8月就要卸任,艾森豪威尔已于3月26日宣布将由现任空军参謀长納山·特文宁上将接替雷德福的职务。特文宁1897年生于威斯康星州的孟罗城。他的父亲是当地的一个银行老板。他的祖先是在十七世紀前半期从英国移居到美国来的。他是一个职業軍人,自1918年畢業于西点軍官学校后,曾有一短时期在步兵中担任少尉。1923年才开始学空軍。他一生中有很长时期是在太平洋区域活动的。1942年8月,他担任南太平洋地区美国陆軍(地面部队与空軍部队)参謀长,大約六个月后就被任命为第十三航空队司令,在所罗門群岛作战。1944年他被調往欧洲担任地中海战略空軍司
Admiral Redford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will step down until August this year. Eisenhower announced on March 26 that he will succeed Redford as the current chief of staff of the Air Force, Adm. Twain was born in 1897 in the city of Monroe, Wisconsin. His father is a local bank boss. His ancestors emigrated from the United Kingdom to the United States in the first half of the seventeenth century. He is a professional soldier who has served as a second lieutenant in infantry for a short period of time after graduating from West Point Military School in 1918. 1923 began to learn air force. For a long time in his life he was active in the Pacific. In August 1942, he served as chief of staff of the United States Army (Ground Forces and Air Forces) in the South Pacific and was named Commander of the Thirteenth Air Corps some six months later to fight in the Solomon Islands. In 1944 he was transferred to Europe as the Mediterranean Strategic Air Division