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Article: Major General Jimmy J. Jumper.(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 JIMMY J. JUMPER
Retired Feb. 12, 1974. Died March 9, 1979.
Major General Jimmy J. Jumper is chief of the Air Force Advisory Group, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Republic of Vietnam.
General Jumper was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1923, and graduated from Paris High School, Paris, Texas, in 1939. He began his military career in 1941 as an enlisted man and received his commission as a second lieutenant in December 1944 after graduating from the aviation cadet program at Moore Field, Texas.
He has served in a number of key positions at many locations in the United States and in the Far ...