Torsten Rapp

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Bo Torsten Rapp (20 April 1905, Stockholm – 23 March 1993, Stockholm) was a General of the Swedish Air Force. As a Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces from 1961 to 1970, he was the first Supreme Commander who did not come from the Swedish Army.

Military career[]

1926-1928 2nd lieutenant Swedish Navy
1928-1930 Lieutenant Swedish Navy
1930-1942 Lieutenant Swedish Air Force
1942-1943 Major Swedish Air Force
1943-1944 Head of Air Command support
1944-1947 Lieutenant Colonel, Wing commander F 17 Kallinge
1947-1948 Colonel, Wing commander F 17 Kallinge
1948-1951 Assistant Head of Air Command
1951-1954 Head of 4th Air Force Escadre
1954-1956 Major General, Head of 5th Air Force Escadre
1957-1960 Assistant Head of Air Force material and appropriations administration
1960-1961 Lieutenant General, Commander of Swedish Air Force
1961-1970 General, Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces

Military offices
Preceded by General Nils Swedlund	Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces	Succeeded by General Stig Synnergren

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