Background
Summerfelt was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, in 1908.
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Milton Summerfelt
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Education
He graduated from the Academy in 1933.
Career
He played for the Army Black Knights football team and was selected as a consensus first-team guard on the 1932 College Football All-America Team. He began his education at Western Michigan State College and Northwestern University, befort being accepted into the United States Military Academy at, New New York While at the Academy, he played at the guard position for the Army Black Knights football team and was a consensus selection for the 1932 College Football All-America Team.
After graduating from, Summerfelt undertook flight training and served at Luke Field in Hawaii, Mitchel Field on Long Island, and the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.
With the United States entry into World World War II, he was assigned to Army Air Force headquarters in Washington, District of Columbia, where he was assigned to bombardment operations. In 1944, he was assigned to temporary duty in the China Burma India Theater.
He assumed command of a B-29 Superfortress bomber group stationed on Okinawa in 1945. After the war, he participated in senior officer training at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and then returned to Okinawa as the operations officer of the 316th Bomb Wing.
He was promoted to the rank of general and, in October 1946, he was assigned to the Operations Division, War Department General Staff Policy Branch, in Washington.
From September 1947 to August 1949, he served as deputy chief of staff for operations for the Atomic Energy Office. After further training at the National War College, he was assigned to the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joint Strategic Plans Group. In June 1952, he became the commanding officer at the Rome Air Force Depot in Utica, New New York
In January 1955, he became deputy chief of the Advance Planning Group, United States. European Command, in Bonn, Germany.
He became the deputy chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group in Germany in 1956. In 1958, he returned to the United States as deputy commander of the Sacramento Air Materiel Area.
