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Article: Lieutenant General John H. Ives.(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 JOHN H. IVES
Retired Sep. 30, 1962. Died March 14, 1965.
John Hiett Ives was born in Delphi, Ind., in 1906. He graduated from Delphi High School and entered the University of Illinois in 1923. In December of the year he graduated from the University of Illinois - 1928, he enlisted as a private in the Indiana National Guard and the following February received an appointment as a flying cadet in the Army Air Forces. After a year's training, including primary and advanced flying schools, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Reserve.
Second Lieutenant Ives' first assignment was assistant armament officer with the ...