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Article: Major General Robert M. 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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MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT M. WEBSTER
Retired Oct. 31, 1954. Died March 1, 1972.
Robert Morris Webster was born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 19, 1892. Enlisting as a flying cadet on Feb. 21, 1918, he attended the School of Military Aeronautics at Princeton, N.J., from March to June, and was then assigned to Chanute Field, Ill. He attended the Aerial Gunnery School at Carlstrom Field, Fla., from October 1918, to February 1919; entered the Instructors School at Kelly Field, Texas; and was then assigned to the District Ordnance Office in Bridgeport, Conn., as a Reserve officer.
Commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Service, Regular Army, in July 1920, ...