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Quesada</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Nickname(s)</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">"Pete"</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1904-04-13</span>)</span>April 13, 1904<sup id="cite_ref-af1946bio_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-af1946bio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, US<sup id="cite_ref-af1946bio_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-af1946bio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">February 9, 1993<span style="display:none">(1993-02-09)</span> (aged 88)<br /><a href="/wiki/Jupiter,_Florida" title="Jupiter, Florida">Jupiter, Florida</a>, US</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Buried</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="label"><a href="/wiki/Arlington_National_Cemetery" title="Arlington National Cemetery">Arlington National Cemetery</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Service <wbr />/ branch</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Corps" title="United States Army Air Corps">United States Army Air 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Air Command</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IX_Tactical_Air_Command" title="IX Tactical Air Command">IX Tactical Air Command</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IX_Fighter_Command" title="IX Fighter Command">IX Fighter Command</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Battles / wars</th><td class="infobox-data">World War II</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Medal_(U.S._Army)" title="Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)">Distinguished Service Medal</a> (2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Flying_Cross_(United_States)" title="Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)">Distinguished Flying Cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purple_Heart" title="Purple Heart">Purple Heart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Air_Medal" title="Air Medal">Air Medal</a> (11)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Other work</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lockheed_Corporation" title="Lockheed Corporation">Lockheed</a></li> <li>Administrator of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration" title="Federal Aviation Administration">FAA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">MLB</a> owner</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Elwood Richard Quesada</b>, <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Bath" title="Order of the Bath">CB</a>, <a href="/wiki/CBE" class="mw-redirect" title="CBE">CBE</a> (April 13, 1904 – February 9, 1993), <a href="/wiki/List_of_aviators_by_nickname#P" title="List of aviators by nickname">nicknamed</a> "Pete", was a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/General_officer" title="General officer">Lt. General</a>, <a href="/wiki/FAA" class="mw-redirect" title="FAA">FAA</a> administrator, and, later, a club owner in <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_years">Early years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elwood_Richard_Quesada&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elwood Richard Quesada was born in Washington, D.C., in 1904 to an Irish-American mother and a Spanish father. He attended <a href="/wiki/Wyoming_Seminary" title="Wyoming Seminary">Wyoming Seminary</a> in Kingston, Pa., <a href="/wiki/University_of_Maryland,_College_Park" title="University of Maryland, College Park">University of Maryland, College Park</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University">Georgetown University</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_military_career">Early military career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elwood_Richard_Quesada&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early military career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In September 1924, Quesada enlisted in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Corps" title="United States Army Air Corps">U.S. Army Air Corps</a> as a flying cadet and was commissioned as a reserve officer a year later. He had a wide variety of assignments as aide to senior officers, military attaché and technical adviser to other air forces, and in intelligence. He was also part of the team (with <a href="/wiki/Ira_Eaker" class="mw-redirect" title="Ira Eaker">Ira Eaker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Carl_Spaatz" title="Carl Spaatz">Carl Spaatz</a>) that developed and demonstrated air-to-air refueling in 1929 on the <a href="/wiki/Question_Mark_(airplane)" class="mw-redirect" title="Question Mark (airplane)"><i>Question Mark</i></a>. All five crew members were awarded the <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Flying_Cross_(United_States)" title="Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)">Distinguished Flying Cross</a> for their participation in the mission. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tactical_airpower_pioneer">Tactical airpower pioneer</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elwood_Richard_Quesada&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Tactical airpower pioneer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Major_General_Ellwood_R._Quesada.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Major_General_Ellwood_R._Quesada.jpg/220px-Major_General_Ellwood_R._Quesada.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="375" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Major_General_Ellwood_R._Quesada.jpg/330px-Major_General_Ellwood_R._Quesada.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Major_General_Ellwood_R._Quesada.jpg/440px-Major_General_Ellwood_R._Quesada.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="1022" /></a><figcaption>Watercolor portrait of Major General Ellwood R. Quesada, 9th Air Force, United States Army Air Force 1945</figcaption></figure> <p>As a junior officer, Quesada became interested in the concept of <a href="/wiki/Close_air_support" title="Close air support">close air support</a> of ground forces, which was thoroughly developed by the 9th AF during his time as commander in North Africa and Europe. </p><p>Quesada was instrumental in developing many of the principles of tactical air-ground warfare for the <a href="/wiki/Ninth_Air_Force" title="Ninth Air Force">Ninth Air Force</a> during the European campaign. Innovations attributed to him included adapting a <a href="/wiki/Early_warning_radar" class="mw-redirect" title="Early warning radar">microwave early warning radar</a> (MEW) for real-time direction of fighter bombers that were already in-flight, as well as placing pilots as forward air controllers inside tanks equipped with VHF aircraft radios on the front lines. This latter technique allowed for direct ground communication with overhead fighter-bombers by personnel who understood what pilots needed to identify ground targets. Besides reducing friendly fire incidents, such tactics allowed attacking ground troops to use <a href="/wiki/Close_air_support" title="Close air support">close air support</a> with greater precision and speed, allowing for air cover to take the place of artillery support in a rapid armored advance. These improved tactics enormously expanded the contributions of tactical airpower to the Allied defeat of Germany on the Western Front. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Postwar_difficulties">Postwar difficulties</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elwood_Richard_Quesada&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Postwar difficulties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1946, Quesada was appointed as the first commander of the <a href="/wiki/Tactical_Air_Command" title="Tactical Air Command">Tactical Air Command</a> (TAC) and later promoted to lieutenant general in the newly independent U.S. Air Force. However, Quesada quickly became disillusioned as he saw how TAC was being ignored while funding and promotions were largely going to the <a href="/wiki/Strategic_Air_Command" title="Strategic Air Command">Strategic Air Command</a>. </p><p>In December 1948, Air Force Chief of Staff <a href="/wiki/Hoyt_Vandenberg" title="Hoyt Vandenberg">Hoyt Vandenberg</a> stripped TAC of its planes and pilots and reduced its status to that of a planning headquarters under the newly formed <a href="/wiki/Continental_Air_Command" title="Continental Air Command">Continental Air Command</a>. Strategic airpower advocates such as General <a href="/wiki/Curtis_LeMay" title="Curtis LeMay">Curtis LeMay</a> gained a lock on the budget for the Air Force in the post-World War II years, and the Air Force's tactical air warfare ability suffered. </p><p>Quesada thus asked for reassignment and was given a dead-end job by Vandenberg as head of a committee to find ways to combine the Air Force Reserves and Air National Guard. Quesada was removed from this job after only two months, as his blunt and impatient nature only served to stir up controversy in this near-impossible task. A subsequent heated exchange during a meeting with Vandenberg and LeMay regarding the slow progress of the committee only added to Quesada's difficulties. These episodes led to his request for early retirement from the Air Force, at the age of 47 in 1951. </p><p>The onset of the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a> resulted in the re-formation of TAC, headed by Quesada's friend, General <a href="/wiki/Otto_P._Weyland" title="Otto P. Weyland">Otto P. Weyland</a>, who led the XIX TAC during World War II. To Quesada's dismay, Vandenberg and LeMay credited Weyland for “restoring both the morale and professionalism of TAC”. Weyland gratefully accepted this praise, further infuriating Quesada. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Civilian_and_family_life">Civilian and family life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elwood_Richard_Quesada&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Civilian and family life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Elwood_R._(Pete)_Quesada_1961.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Elwood_R._%28Pete%29_Quesada_1961.jpg" decoding="async" width="144" height="221" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="144" data-file-height="221" /></a><figcaption>Quesada in 1961</figcaption></figure> <p>On October 12, 1946, Quesada married Kate Davis Putnam, a war widow (her first husband was Capt. Henry Ware Putnam, who died in an air raid over Tokyo on May 25, 1945). She was a granddaughter of newspaper mogul <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Pulitzer" title="Joseph Pulitzer">Joseph Pulitzer</a>, and inherited part of his holdings. Mrs. Quesada had two daughters from her previous marriage; the Quesadas had two sons of their own: Thomas Ricardo Quesada and Peter Wickham Quesada. </p><p>He served as an executive for <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_Corporation" title="Lockheed Corporation">Lockheed</a> Aircraft Corporation from 1953–55. In 1957, he became President <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>'s Special Adviser for Aviation, leading to his appointment as the first administrator of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration" title="Federal Aviation Administration">Federal Aviation Administration</a> (At that time a cabinet level agency known as the Federal Aviation Agency-FAA) from 1959–61. </p><p>As FAA chairman, Quesada was instrumental, along with <a href="/wiki/American_Airlines" title="American Airlines">American Airlines</a> president <a href="/wiki/C._R._Smith" title="C. R. Smith">C. R. Smith</a>, in passing a mandatory retirement age of 60 for commercial airline pilots. Smith had lobbied for this rule on the grounds that young pilots with experience serving in World War II and the Korean War would be cheap and easy to train for the new jetliners. Quesada agreed, but went even further to suggest that civilian pilots be barred entirely from jetliner cockpits. The age 60 rule went into effect in 1960 and remained in effect until 2007, although Quesada's proposal to limit jetliners to ex-military personnel was ignored along with an additional suggestion of his that jetliner training be limited to pilots under 55. </p><p>C.R. Smith rewarded Quesada handsomely for his help; after the latter stepped down as FAA chairman in 1961, he was granted a seat on American Airlines' board of directors. </p><p>Quesada became involved in professional sports when he became owner of the expansion <a href="/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1961%E2%80%9371)" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Senators (1961–71)">Washington Senators</a> in 1961. Quesada sold his stake in the team two years later. He later became President and Chief Executive Officer of the L'Enfant Plaza Corporation, a private corporation that successfully partnered with the Federal government to develop <a href="/wiki/L%27Enfant_Plaza" title="L'Enfant Plaza">L'Enfant Plaza</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Urged_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Urged-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later became a member of the Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue, a precursor of the <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Avenue_Development_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation">Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation</a>, which helped redevelop <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Avenue_(Washington,_D.C.)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.)">Pennsylvania Avenue NW</a> between the <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Capitol" title="United States Capitol">United States Capitol</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Urged_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Urged-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Quesada, his wife, and their two sons were involved in a dispute with <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Pulitzer_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Pulitzer III">Joseph Pulitzer III</a> in 1986 over the control and value of the sons' shares in the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Post-Dispatch" title="St. Louis Post-Dispatch">St. Louis <i>Post-Dispatch</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elwood_Richard_Quesada&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>General Quesada died on February 9, 1993, at a <a href="/wiki/Jupiter,_Florida" title="Jupiter, Florida">Jupiter, Florida</a>, hospital<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was buried at <a href="/wiki/Arlington_National_Cemetery" title="Arlington National Cemetery">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Arlington,_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arlington, Virginia">Arlington, Virginia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ANCofficial_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ANCofficial-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BioMilitary.com_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BioMilitary.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His wife Kate Davis Putnam Quesada died March 5, 2003, and was interred with him at <a href="/wiki/Arlington_National_Cemetery" title="Arlington National Cemetery">Arlington National Cemetery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ANCofficial_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ANCofficial-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recognitions,_decorations_and_medals"><span id="Recognitions.2C_decorations_and_medals"></span>Recognitions, decorations and medals</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elwood_Richard_Quesada&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Recognitions, decorations and medals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="American_decorations_and_medals">American decorations and medals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elwood_Richard_Quesada&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: American decorations and medals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table> <tbody><tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:COMMAND_PILOT_WINGS.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/COMMAND_PILOT_WINGS.png/160px-COMMAND_PILOT_WINGS.png" decoding="async" width="160" height="68" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/COMMAND_PILOT_WINGS.png/240px-COMMAND_PILOT_WINGS.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/COMMAND_PILOT_WINGS.png/320px-COMMAND_PILOT_WINGS.png 2x" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="444" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States_Aviator_Badge" title="United States Aviator Badge">United States Air Force Command Pilot Badge</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ObserverBadge.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/ObserverBadge.jpg/160px-ObserverBadge.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="47" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/ObserverBadge.jpg/240px-ObserverBadge.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/ObserverBadge.jpg/320px-ObserverBadge.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="177" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Observer_Badge" title="Observer Badge">USAAF Observer Badge</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="position:relative; width:110px; border:none; line-height:1.5em; display:-moz-inline-stack; display:inline-block; zoom:1; *display:inline;"><div style="position:relative; display:inline-block;"><div style="position: absolute; left: 43px; top: 5px; padding: 0;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bronze_oak_leaf-3d.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Bronze oak leaf cluster"><img alt="Bronze oak leaf cluster" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Bronze_oak_leaf-3d.svg/22px-Bronze_oak_leaf-3d.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Bronze_oak_leaf-3d.svg/33px-Bronze_oak_leaf-3d.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Bronze_oak_leaf-3d.svg/44px-Bronze_oak_leaf-3d.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="297" data-file-height="252" /></a></span></div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:U.S._Army_Distinguished_Service_Medal_ribbon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/U.S._Army_Distinguished_Service_Medal_ribbon.svg/110px-U.S._Army_Distinguished_Service_Medal_ribbon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/U.S._Army_Distinguished_Service_Medal_ribbon.svg/165px-U.S._Army_Distinguished_Service_Medal_ribbon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/U.S._Army_Distinguished_Service_Medal_ribbon.svg/220px-U.S._Army_Distinguished_Service_Medal_ribbon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span></div></div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Army_Distinguished_Service_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Distinguished Service Medal">Army Distinguished Service Medal</a> with bronze <a href="/wiki/Oak_leaf_cluster" title="Oak leaf cluster">oak leaf cluster</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Distinguished_Flying_Cross_ribbon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Distinguished_Flying_Cross_ribbon.svg/110px-Distinguished_Flying_Cross_ribbon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Distinguished_Flying_Cross_ribbon.svg/165px-Distinguished_Flying_Cross_ribbon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Distinguished_Flying_Cross_ribbon.svg/220px-Distinguished_Flying_Cross_ribbon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Flying_Cross_(United_States)" title="Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)">Distinguished Flying Cross</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Purple_Heart_ribbon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Purple_Heart_ribbon.svg/110px-Purple_Heart_ribbon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Purple_Heart_ribbon.svg/165px-Purple_Heart_ribbon.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="/wiki/File:Order_of_the_Bath_UK_ribbon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Order_of_the_Bath_UK_ribbon.svg/110px-Order_of_the_Bath_UK_ribbon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Order_of_the_Bath_UK_ribbon.svg/165px-Order_of_the_Bath_UK_ribbon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Order_of_the_Bath_UK_ribbon.svg/220px-Order_of_the_Bath_UK_ribbon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Bath" title="Order of the Bath">Order of the Bath</a> (Degree of Companion) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Order_of_the_British_Empire_(Military)_Ribbon.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Order_of_the_British_Empire_%28Military%29_Ribbon.png" 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Badge</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_honors">Other honors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elwood_Richard_Quesada&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Other honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Air_Society" title="Arnold Air Society">Arnold Air Society</a> Squadron at <a href="/wiki/Clarkson_University" title="Clarkson University">Clarkson University</a> is named in his honor. </p><p>On September 14, 2011, he was honored posthumously during Hispanic Heritage Month activities in <a href="/wiki/Cleveland,_Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland, Ohio">Cleveland, Ohio</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2012 Quesada was posthumously inducted into the <a href="/wiki/National_Aviation_Hall_of_Fame" title="National Aviation Hall of Fame">National Aviation Hall of Fame</a> in Dayton, Ohio.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rank_and_promotions">Rank and promotions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elwood_Richard_Quesada&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Rank and promotions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_general_(United_States)" title="Lieutenant general (United States)">Lieutenant General</a> Quesada was promoted and held commands as follows: </p> <ul><li>Second Lieutenant – 14 September 1925</li> <li>First Lieutenant – 1 November 1932</li> <li>Captain – 20 April 1935</li> <li>Major – 1 February 1941; 3rd Pursuit Group</li> <li>Lieutenant Colonel – 5 January 1942; Philadelphia Region, I Fighter Command</li> <li>Brigadier General – 11 December 1942; 1st Air Defense Wing; XII Fighter Command; IX Fighter Command; IX Tactical Air Command</li> <li>Major General – 28 April 1944; Ninth Air Force</li> <li>Lieutenant General – 1 October 1947; <a href="/wiki/Tactical_Air_Command" title="Tactical Air Command">Tactical Air Command</a></li></ul> <p><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elwood_Richard_Quesada&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output 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