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Major General John B. Ackerman.(United States Air Force)(Biography)

MAJOR GENERAL JOHN B. ACKERMAN

Retired July 1, 1960. Died June 13, 1981.

John Bevier Ackerman was born in Auburn, N.Y., in 1909. His family later moved to Watertown, N.Y. He graduated from Watertown High School in 1926. After a year in business college in Watertown and another year at Marion Institute, Marion, Ala., he entered the United States Military Academy in July 1928. He secured his appointment through competition as a member of the New York National Guard. He graduated in 1932, 53 in a class of 262.

Second Lieutenant Ackerman's first assignment was to an anti-aircraft battery in the Coast Artillery at Port MacArthur, San Pedro, Calif. It is interesting to ...

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