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Air Force Lt. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr.

Davis Portrait

Benjamin O. Davis Jr. became the Air Force’s first African American general officer in 1954 and retired as a lieutenant general in 1970. He received his fourth star in 1998.

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