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Article: Major General Horace A. Hanes.(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 HORACE A. HANES
Retired Jan. 1, 1973.
Major General Horace A. Hanes is vice commander, Aerospace Defense Command, Ent Air Force Base, Colo.
General Hanes was born in Fayette, Ill., in 1916. After graduating from Normal Community High School in 1933, he attended Illinois State Normal University where he received his bachelor of arts degree in education in 1937. He entered the U.S. Army Air Corps in October 1938, completed flying school at Kelly Field, Texas, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve in August 1939.
In October 1939 he was assigned to the 18th Pursuit Group in Hawaii, and ...