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PHOTOCOPIED October 2, 2002; NASM PRESERVATION COPY

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[[caption]]NEGRO GENERAL—Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (L), director of operations and training for the Far East Air Force in Tokyo, gets his brigadier general star from Gen. Earle E. Partridge. General Davis, whose father, now retired, also was a brigadier, is the only Negro general in the Air Force.[[/caption]]
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