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Article: General Horace M. Wade.(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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GENERAL HORACE M. WADE
Retired Oct. 31, 1973. Died June 14, 2001.
General Horace Milton Wade is vice chief of staff, U.S. Air Force.
He was born in 1916, in Magnolia, Ark. After completing high school in Wortham, Texas, he returned to Arkansas, and graduated from the Magnolia Agricultural and Mechanical Junior College in 1936. In February 1948 he received his bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of Arkansas. His military career began in 1934 when he became a member of Company D, 153rd Infantry, Arkansas National Guard. He entered the Army Air Corps Flying School, Randolph Field, Texas, in 1937, and upon ...