George James Eade is a retired United States Air Force four-star general who served as Deputy Commander in Chief, United States European Command from 1973 to 1975. Eade was born in Lockney, Texas, in 1921. He graduated from York High School in Elmhurst, Illinois, and attended the Illinois Institute of Technology. He entered military service as an aviation cadet in January 1942 from Chicago, Illinois, and, that September was awarded his pilot wings and a commission as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps. He flew 37 combat missions in the European Theater of Operations, where he served almost four years as a pilot, flight commander and operations officer. Eade began a long tour of duty with the Strategic Air Command in August 1946, when he joined the 43d Bombardment Wing at Davis-Monthan Army Air Field, Arizona, as a pilot of B-29 aircraft. In September 1947 he was assigned as operations officer and, later, commander of the 1st Strategic Support Squadron, which provided SAC with close airlift support for its global operations. In May 1952 he went to SAC headquarters, where he was chief of the Current Operations Branch, Directorate of Operations. 

October 27th, 1921 in Texas  /  Died:   Aug 26th, 2018 - aged 96