Volunteers. On the day before this crisis, slim, restless Major General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, commander of the U.S. Ninth Air Force, had popped into the headquarters of 40-year-old Major ...

This story appears in the February 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. It took just over two minutes for the missile-tracking ship General Hoyt S. Vandenberg to sink to the bottom of the ...

By the way, Arthur Vandenberg was the uncle of Hoyt Vandenberg, the Air Force general who became the director of the CIA. At the risk of offending Hank Meijer (as the author is called), I will ...