Major General Major Samuel White is command surgeon, Pacific Air Forces; he advises the commander in chief, Pacific Air Forces on all medical matters and directs the command medical service program. His responsibilities include the command's hospital and dispensary systems, preventive medicine policies, flight medicine, aeromedical evacuation, and the overall effectiveness of personnel as pertains to health and medicine.

General White was born in New York City in 1907. He was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps and interned at Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, D.C. General White was director of the Department of Aviation Medicine at the U.S. Air Force School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, from 1940 to 1942.

During 1942-44, he established the Aeromedical Department of the Army Air Force School of Applied Tactics, Orlando, Fla., and served as its director.  In 1945, the general was a member of the U.S. Army Air Forces group which pioneered the first scheduled round-the-world military air transport flights in six days. 

As command surgeon of the Global Air Transport Command from 1944 to 1947, the general was responsible for the world-wide air evacuation of all United States sick and wounded personnel, then a revolutionary concept in handling military casualties.

General White had the responsibility of initially organizing the U.S. Air Force medical facilities in Europe, supplying medical support for the Berlin Airlift, and providing aeromedical evacuation of military patients in an area five times the size of the United States.

During his tour as command surgeon of the Tactical Air Command from 1951 to 1956, the general was instrumental in developing and administering the Aviation Medicine Residency Training Program and in establishing the USAF Tactical Medical Center at Donaldson Air Force Base, S.C.

Upon completion of this tour, he was assigned as director of Medical Staffing and Education Office of the Surgeon General, Headquarters U.S. Air Force. 

In 1959, he became command surgeon, Air Training Command, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, and on completion of this assignment in 1963 he became Federal Air Surgeons Federal Aviation Agency, Washington, D.C.

General White became command surgeon, Headquarters Pacific Air Forces, in September 1965.

In 1940, General White made the first electrocardiograph recordings and the first complete scientific study of heart action in high-altitude flying.

This study led to the development of techniques for the recording of biological functions which are now widely used in the investigation of human factors in flights.

In November 1965 he became president of the Association of Military Surgeons. He is board certified in aviation medicine, internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases. He retired in March 1, 1969 and died April 4, 1994.