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>  > GENERAL WILLIAM V. MCBRIDE GENERAL WILLIAM V. MCBRIDE Bio Tools Retired March 31, 1978.   General William V. McBride is vice chief of staff, U.S. Air Force. General McBride was born in Wampum, Pa., in 1922. He received his high school education in that town and later attended the Garfield Business Institute, Beaver Falls, Pa. In 1950 he attended New York University, New York City. General McBride enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942 and entered aviation cadet training. He completed navigation training at the Pan American Airways Navigation School, Coral Gables, Fla., and graduated as a second lieutenant. He next attended bombardier school in Carlsbad, N.M., and in March 1943 entered combat crew training as a navigator-bombardier in B-26 aircraft at MacDill Field, Fla. In July 1943 General McBride joined the 387th Bombardment Group in the European Theater of Operations as squadron navigator and later served as group navigator. He helped plan and flew on many of the important missions in support of the Allied ground forces offensive, including D-Day operations. After World War II, he trained new navigators at Ellington Army Air Field, Texas, and then was assigned to Lackland Army Air Field, Texas, to help organize the present Air Force basic training base. He attended basic and advanced pilot training at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, and Barksdale Air Force Base...