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Article: Brigadier General Horace D. Aynesworth.(United States Air Force)(Biography)
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- U.S. Air Force Military Biographies
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- January 1, 2004
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BRIGADIER GENERAL HORACE D. AYNESWORTH
Retired Jan. 31, 1968. Died Oct. 22, 1995.
General Aynesworth was born at Childress, Texas, in 1915. He attended West Texas High School in the nearby town of Canyon. He received his higher education at West Texas State College, also in Canyon, and the University of Texas at Austin.
An aviation enthusiast from boyhood, he enrolled in the summer of 1936 as a flying cadet in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He completed flight training at Randolph and Kelly fields in San Antonio and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Corps Reserve June 30, 1937.
Lieutenant Aynesworth's first assignment was as a ...