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Article: Major General Paul T. Cooper.(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 PAUL T. COOPER
Retired Feb. 1, 1972.
Maj. Gen. Paul T. Cooper is director of laboratories for Headquarters Air Force Systems Command, Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
General Cooper was born in 1919 in Chicago, Ill., and graduated from Purdue University in 1940 with a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering and a commission as second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Field Artillery Reserve. In March 1941 he entered active military duty in the Office of the Chief of the Army Air Corps in Washington, D.C.
In October 1942 he began flight training and earned his pilot wings in June 1943. He then was assigned to the ...