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Article: Brigadier General Douglas Keeney.(United States Air Force)(Biography)
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- U.S. Air Force Military Biographies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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BRIGADIER GENERAL DOUGLAS KEENEY
Died Nov. 2, 1979.
Douglas Keeney was born in Erie, Mich., in 1895. After graduating from high school at Monroe, Mich., in 1915, he attended Tristate College in Angola, Ind., for two years.
On Aug. 15, 1917, he was commissioned a second lieutenant of Cavalry in the Army Reserve and assigned to active duty at Fort Sheridan, Ill. He was transferred to the Field Artillery in January 1918, and later that year graduated from flying school, was rated a pilot and transferred to the Air Corps. He was relieved of active duty in 1919.
General Keeney was recalled to active duty with the Air Force as a major in ...