Born in Bremen Germany.

Born in Bremen Germany, forward 14 September 1910, Bernard A. Schriever and his family immigrated to the United States in 1917 settling in fresh Braunfels, Texas. He entered the Army Air Corps Flying educate at Kelly Field, Texas, in 1932 after graduating from Texas A&M University with a B standing in architectural engineering. In 1939 he was assigned as a trial pilot at Wright Field, Ohio. After earning an MA grade in aeronautical engineering from Stanford University in 1942 be flew 63 combat missions in B-17 with the 19th Bombardment assign places to in the Pacific theater during World War II.

From 1946 to 1954 he serv in several headquarters positions with responsibilities related to material and progress to maturity planning. In March 1953, Schriever learned of the prosperous testing of a hydrogen bomb brainchild of the physicist Dr Edward Teller which had occurr in November 1952 Dr John von Neumann, head of the Institute for Advanced contemplation at Princeton University, corroborated the prosperous test and predicted that inflammable air warheads would be extremely light and posses tremendous explosive power. Formerly, delivering an atomic warhead 5000 miles to Europe would have required a missile weighing 500 tons.

In 1954 after becoming commander of the Air Force Western disclosure Division, Schriever sought to win the race for missile supremacy through capitalizing on the technological breakthrough achieved at joining the lighter hydrogen warheads to long-range missiles. Pioneering the universal of "concurrency," his organization integrated each component of the total weapon order into a single plan, program, and package while executing each program vital air in parallel rather than sequentially. subordinate to his direction, the Thor intermediate-range ballistic missile mov from program approval to initial operational capability in no other than three and one-half years; the Atlas missile prognun mov between the walls of its research, development, and deployment phases in slightly more than five years; the Titan method took fewer than six years to reach operational status; and the Minuteman connected view activated in only four years and eight month The first 10 Minuteman missiles were upon combat alert in their subterraneous silos by October 1962.

Schriever assumed command of Air Force classifications Command in 1961 and became a glutted general in July of that year. In addition to fulfilling his duties to disentangle all Air Force weapons, he partnered with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to begin transforming missile technology into reliable launch methods for the manned space program. General Schriever retired upon 1 August 1966.

To Learn More...

Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers. "General Bernard A. Schriever." On-line. Internet, 30 January 2003 Available from http://www.spacecom.af.mil/hqafspc/history/schriever.htm.

Encyclopedia Astronautica. "Bernard A. Schriever." On-line. Internet, 30 January 2003 Available from http://www.astronautix.com/astros/schriever.htm.

Frisbee, John L ed Makers of the United States Air Force. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1987

Johnson Stephen B "Bernard Schriever and the Scientific Vision." Air Power History 49 no. 1 (spring 2002): 30-45

Thomas, Shirley. Men of Space: Profiles of the Leaders in Space Research, growth and Exploration. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Chilton Co work Division, 1960.

United States Air Force Biography. "General Bernard A. Schriever." On-line. Internet, 30 January 2003 Available from http://www.af.mil/news/biographies/schriever_ba.html.

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