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Last Updated on 11/21/98
LRC meets
Chiang Kai-Shek
LRC was assigned as Commander 327th Air Divison and Commander Air Section Military Advisory and Assistance Group (MAAG) for Taiwan from October 1967 to June 1969. He was a Brigadier General at the time. In this position he worked closely with the ROC Air Force and also oversaw operations which supported Tactical Air Force operations in Viet Nam.. In this photo, LRC and Mrs. Chase are shown greeting Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek at a reception in Taipei.
LRC receives his promotion to Major General in
1971. This promotion occurred while he was assigned as Assistant Deputy Chief of
Operations Tactical Air Command at Langley AFB. General William Momyer
did the pinning. Interestingly, General Momeyer was LRC's 33rd Fighter
Group commander in North Africa in WWII. Following this promotion, LRC
was assigned as Vice Commander Ninth Air Force, Shaw AFB South Carolina.
He assumed command of the Ninth Air Force in the year prior to his retirement
LRC
with President Richard M. Nixon
This photo was taken at Homestead AFB in 1972.
LRC is shown greeting President Nixon upon his arrival for the Republican
National Convention. LRC wasin charge of the USAF contingent that was detailed
to provide security and transportation.
Last
Flight
This photo was taken at Shaw AFB in 1973 when LRC made his last flight. The aircraft was an F-4e Phantom. By the time of his retirement, he had logged over 5,700 hours in jet fighter aircraft.
LRC
with the fish thatdidn't get away
In 1973, LRC retired to his hometown of Cortland,
N.Y. This photo was taken the first summer following retirement on a fishing
expedition to the Finger Lakes. Not only was he a great fighter pilot,
commander, and father, but he was one heck of a wingshot and fisherman
too. LRC hooked this landlocked salmon on a fly rod baited with a minnow.
The salmon never had a chance.
LRC and Mrs. Chase in the living room at the East River Road House. They
had a pretty quiet relaxed retirement in the lovely setting of upstate NY for the twenty years following retirment. Later they
purchased a second home in Boynton Beach, Florida and spent winters there. LRC passed away following a long
illness in 1994 and Mrs. Chase passed away in 1996.
LRC and Mrs. Chase at Home
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