Major General Daniel C. Doubleday graduated from the US Military Academy in 1929 and then completed basic and advanced flying training and the Air Corps’ communications course. In 1943 he served in the United Kingdom and North Africa on a technical mission, spearheading the introduction of VHF communications. In 1949 he served as Deputy Air Communications Officer for the Far East Forces and then as an observer with the Atomic Bomb Investigation Mission in Japan. He graduated from the National War College in 1950, spent a year with the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, and joined the Airways and Air Communications Service in 1954, serving as first commander of the European-African-Middle Eastern AACS Area, then as commander of the worldwide organization.

Doubleday earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for his development work and test flying at Wright Field, including the first use of command radio sets in fighter aircraft, the first instrument landing systems, aircraft bombing radars, automatic radio compass and many other forerunners of today’s equipment. He was awarded the Legion of Merit for his WWII work on the Air Staff and command of the Communications Service, and was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his WWII service in collaboration with members of the Royal Air Force. Doubleday was posthumously inducted into the United States Air Force Communications & Information Hall of Fame in 2003.



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