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Article: Major General Lawrence J. Fleming.(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 LAWRENCE J. FLEMING
Retired Sep. 1, 1975.
Major General Lawrence J. Fleming is chief of staff, U.S. Southern Command with headquarters at Quarry Heights, Canal Zone.
General Fleming was born in 1922, in Green Bay, Wis., where he graduated from high school in 1941. He then attended St. Norbert's College, West DePere, Wis. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in November 1942 and began his active military career in January 1943 as an aviation cadet. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant and received his pilot wings in Jackson, Miss., in March 1944, and then attended P-40 pilot training.
During World War II, in ...