Twining, Nathan Farragut (1897-1982), in 1957 became the first United States Air Force officer to be appointed chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He retired in 1960. He became Air Force Chief of Staff in 1953. His military career began in the infantry, but he transferred to the Air Service in 1924. During World War II, he commanded the Thirteenth Air Force in the South Pacific, and the Fifteenth Air Force in Italy. At the end of the war, he commanded the Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific. Twining was born in Monroe, Wisconsin.
