Dan C. Ogle

Dan Clark Ogle
Dan Clark Ogle
Born	October 9, 1901; Keithsburg, Illinois
Died	August 30, 1990 (aged 88)
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Air Force
Years of service	1929–1958
Rank	Major General
Commands held	U.S. Air Force Surgeon General
Awards	Bronze Star

Major General Dan Clark Ogle (October 9, 1901 – August 30, 1990) was the third Surgeon General of the United States Air Force.

Biography

Ogle was born at Keithsburg, Illinois, in 1901. He graduated from Eureka College, Illinois, in 1924, where he was initiated a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Ronald Reagan was initiated at the same chapter five years later). He received his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1929.

Appointed a first lieutenant in the

William Beaumont General Hospital at El Paso, Texas, and received his Regular commission as a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps July 1, 1930. Entering the School of Aviation Medicine at Brooks Field, Texas, in April 1931, he graduated that July; entered the Army Medical School at Washington, D.C., three months later and graduated in January 1932; and four months later graduated from the Medical Field Service School at Carlisle Barracks

, Pennsylvania.

Assigned to

Chanute Field, Illinois, as flight surgeon and war officer at the station hospital, he was named post surgeon in May 1936. The following November he went to Luke Field, Hawaii, where he served as post surgeon. In March 1939 he was appointed war officer at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas

, and in June 1941 resumed his position as post surgeon at Chanute.

Moving to

15th Air Force

in Italy. Returning to the United States the following September, he was named chief of the Plans and Services Division in the Office of the Air Surgeon, Washington, D.C.

Transferred to

Air War College

there in August 1948, he graduated in June 1949.

The following December General Ogle was named deputy surgeon general of the Air Force, and in July 1949 was transferred from the Army to the Air Force. Going to

U.S. Air Forces in Europe

.

On July 15, 1954, General Ogle was designated surgeon general of the U.S. Air Force, with headquarters at Washington, D.C.

General Ogle can be seen at the beginning of the 1956 movie "On the Threshold of Space" introducing the aeromedical theme of the movie.

Awards and decorations

He was awarded the

aircraft observer (Medical). General Ogle was a member of the American Medical Association

, Association of Military Surgeons, and the Aero-Medical Association. He died April 30, 1990.

References

This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Air Force

Preceded by Harry G. Armstrong	Surgeon General of the United States Air Force 1954–1958	Succeeded by Oliver K. Niess

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