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Heard, Jack, MG USA(Ret).
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Date of Passing Oct 25, 1976
Location of Interment Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery (VA) - San Antonio, Texas
Commissioned in June 1910 as 2LT of Cavalry.
One of the first US Army Aviators; trained in 1917.
Branch detail to Aviation, June 1917 - May 1919.
Commanded Kelly Air Field, TX during WWI (1917 - 1919).
Transferred back to Cavalry in May 1919.
Retired in Sep 1946.
The War Department existed from 1789 until September 18, 1947, when it split into Department of the Army and Department of the Air Force and joined the Department of the Navy as part of the new joint National Military Establishment (NME), renamed the United States Department of Defense in 1949.