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George Churchill Kenney
General, U.S. Air Force
George Churchill Kenney was born on 6 August 1889 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, grew up in Brookline, MA, and graduated from Brookline High School in 1907.
He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology intermittently from 1907 to 1911, but left MIT after three years to take a job at Quebec Saguenay Railroad as an instrument technician.
Military Career
In June 1917 he enlisted as a flying cadet in the Aviation Section, U.S.
Signal Corps, where he received flight training from noted aviator Bert Acosta.
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He was commissioned as a First Lieutenant in December 1917 and was immediately sent to Advanced Flying Training School in France. Upon successful completion of the course in February 1918, he was assigned to the 91st Aero Squadron.
Kenney flew 75 combat missions in 16 months and was credited with downing two enemy planes. (It is believed that one of the two German pilots he shot down was Hermann Göring, later the hea