John Joseph Dishuck
| John Joseph Dishuck | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 3, 1913 New York |
| 💀Died | November 21, 1992 (aged 79) Albuquerque, New MexicoNovember 21, 1992 (aged 79) |
| 💼 Occupation | USAF Liaison |
John J. Dishuck was a former Base Commander at Kirtland AFB in 1967 and liaison officer during Project Orion. He served in World War II, the Korean conflict and Vietnam.[1][2]
Early life
The son of Russian immigrant parents, Dishuck’s family immigrated to the US and John Joseph Dishuck was born in the US on 3 July 1913. When he was about 16, his parents were disabled and placed in nursing homes where they died. He was left to raise a younger sister and brother alone.[citation needed]
Dishuck joined the Army as a private and then went to Cooper Union which allowed free tuition to exceptional candidates. He then joined the Air Force as an officer and received his Master’s Degree in engineering from the University of Michigan. He specialized and was educated in Nuclear Engineering. He married in 1962 and adopted a son.[3] [4]
Project Orion
Dishuck signed several research papers on Project Orion, as Deputy Chief of Staff of Operations. He signed the "Counterforce from Space" paper by Frederick F Gorschboth.[5] [6] [7] Attended meetings in the 1950s by the Atomic Energy Commission. [8]
Career
Dishuck spent three years in Wiesbaden Germany from 1963 until 1966. He was in charge of installing a Nuclear Defense System across Western Europe. When the family came back to Albuquerque NM, Dishuck was made the Base Commander of Kirtland AFB in 1967. The family lived with a "red phone" on the base at Kirtland when he was base commander.[9]
Dishuck retired from the United States Air Force after serving 27 years. He was a Senior Consulting Engineer at Sandia Labs, retiring in 1973. [10]
Book
Atoms for Peace Paperback is a collection of paper documents by Dishuck contained within the Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library. The collection of documents cover the Vietnam Conflict, Korean War and the U.S. Civil War. Through the discussions of social and political implications, Dishuck's papers revolve on the peaceful uses of atomic energy.[11]
Death
Dishuck had a slight stroke in the mid-80's and then in about 1989 he had a massive stroke that left him with the inability to speak or walk. He was in a wheelchair until he died on 21 November 1992 in Albuquerque.[12] [13] [14]
References
- ↑ Congressional Record [1]
- ↑ Air Force Bases: Active Air Force bases within the United States of America [2]
- ↑ General Register, Volume 3 [3]
- ↑ Proceedings of the Board of Regents [4]
- ↑ stratcom.mil [5]
- ↑ Global List Of Air Force Bases,1982 [6]
- ↑ osti.gov [7]
- ↑ Health effects of low-level radiation [8]
- ↑ newspaperarchive.com [9]
- ↑ Nuclear Weapon security archive Sandia [10]
- ↑ amazon.ca [11]
- ↑ planet4589.org [12]
- ↑ ancestry.de [13]
- ↑ sortedbyname.com [14]
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