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Article: Major General John Reynolds Sutherland.(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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MAJOR GENERAL JOHN REYNOLDS SUTHERLAND
Retired. Died Nov. 19, 1977.
John Reynolds Sutherland was born in Monroe, N.Y., in 1909. He graduated from Monroe High School in 1926 and from Mackensie Preparatory School, also in Monroe, in 1927. He attended Dartmouth College for one year prior to receiving a Congressional appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1929.
Graduating from the academy on June 9, 1932 as a second lieutenant of the cavalry, Lieutenant Sutherland entered flying training the same year at Randolph and Kelly fields, Texas. In 1933, he received his pilot's wings and has been in bombardment since that time. He has ...