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Article: Lieutenant General Benjamin J. Webster.(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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LIEUTENANT GENERAL BENJAMIN J. WEBSTER
Retired Nov. 1, 1966. Died Jan. 23, 1987.
Benjamin Jepson Webster was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1911, and moved with his family to Hawaii in 1914. Appointed to the U.S. Military Academy from Hawaii in 1928, he graduated in the Class of 1932 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps.
Lieutenant Webster's initial assignment was with the 64th Coast Artillery in Hawaii, where he served until entering pilot training at Randolph Field, Texas, in the fall of 1932. He received his pilot wings at Kelly Field in 1933 and today he is rated a command pilot.
After graduation from ...