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Article: Major General Walter H. Baxter III.(United States Air Force)(Biography)
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- U.S. Air Force Military Biographies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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MAJOR GENERAL WALTER H. BAXTER III
Retired Aug. 1, 1982. Died May 10, 2004.
Maj. Gen. Walter H. Baxter III is commander, 3rd Air Force, United States Air Forces in Europe, with headquarters at Royal Air Force Station Mildenhall, Suffolk, England.
General Baxter was born in southern Texas in 1926 and graduated from high school in his hometown of Weslaco, Texas, in 1943. He then attended what is now the University of Texas at Arlington and in 1944 enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces. In 1946 he received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., and upon graduation in 1950 was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. ...