Elmer Joseph Rogers Jr. (October 12, 1903 – June 30, 2002) was a United States Air Force lieutenant general.

After graduating as class valedictorian from high school in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1920, he attended the Emerson Institute and later studied at Harvard University.

The scene called for him to do some loops, and then pose after a crash as if dying, complete with blood dripping down his face, from his nose and mouth.

Assigned as a squadron adjutant, a year later Rogers became a flying instructor at Brooks and Kelly fields, successively.

Going to Hawaii, Rogers served with the Fourth Observation Squadron at Luke Field, and in June 1935 was transferred to the 18th Composite Ting at Fort Shafter.

Graduating from the Air Corps Tactical School in 1939, Rogers was assigned as an instructor with the Georgia National Guard.

The following August, Rogers assumed command of the 465th Bomb Group at McCook Field, Neb., taking it to the Mediterranean Theater in February 1944.

Entering the National War College at Washington, D.C., in August 1947, he graduated the next June and was assigned to the Alaskan Command at Fort Richardson, Alaska, to become director of plans and operations.

Judith was a member of the ballet company at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for several years before marrying Richard Hauser and having four daughters with him.

Later, when the couple retired and lived in Falls Church, Virginia, they put Kazuko through the interior design program at Marymount University.

Kazuko later married Howard Barkey, a U.S. Army colonel who translated German transmissions into English during World War II.