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PHOTOCOPIED October 2, 2002; NASM PRESERVATION COPY

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Col. Davis Made General By Air Force
 WASHINGTON-(ANP)- Col.B.O.Davis Jr.of the Air Force, has been promoted to temporary brigadier general, it was announced at the White House last week.
 Gen.Davis, son of retired Brig.Gen. B.O.Davis Sr., is now serving as director of operations in the Far Eastern air force, with headquarters in 
Japan.
 The junior brigadier general was born in Washington,D.C.,Dec.18,1912. He received his high school education at Central High school, Cleveland, O.,where he was graduated in 1929.  He attended Western Reserve university, Cleveland for one year; and University of Chicago for two years.  In 1932, he entered West (Continued on Page A-2)

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Point, graduating in 1936.  He was graduated from the Infantry school, Fort Benning, Ga., in 1936.  He then transferred from the Infantry to the air force where he was graduated from the Tuskegee flying school in 1942.
 Assigned to Fort Riley, Kans., he served as military aide to his father. Later he was put in command of the famous 99th Pursuit squadron serving in North Africa.  He was organizer for the celebrated 332nd fighter group which served with credit in Italy.
  Following the war, he went to the War college, from which he was graduated out of the air division in 1950.
 During Word War II he flew 60 combat missions and received  the decorations of Legion of Merit,Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with four clover leaf clusters.
  Both Davis' are the only two Negroes ever to attain the rank of brigadier general.  The senior Davis was appointed by President Eisenhower recently to serve on the D.C. Battle Monuments commission.