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Lieutenant General Keith Karl Compton 1915-2004.(In Memoriam)(Obituary)(Biography)

Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-SEP-04
Format: Online - approximately 496 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Lt. Gen. Keith Karl Compton died on June 15, 2004, in San Antonio, Texas. He was eighty-eight.

General Compton was born in 1915 in St. Joseph, Missouri, and graduated from Central High School there in 1933. He received his BA degree from Westminster College at Fulton, Missouri, in 1937....

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...He then entered military service as an aviation cadet at Randolph Field, Texas, and received his pilot's wings in 1939.

He spent the next...

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