Ira Eaker

Ira Clarence Eaker (13 April 1896 – 6 August 1987) was a general of the United States Army Air Force, who commanded the Eighth Air Force during World War II.

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Eaker was born in

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Field Creek, Texas,

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in 1896. He attended Southeastern State Teachers College in Durant, Oklahoma, then joined the US Army in 1917. He was appointed a second lieutenant in the Infantry Section, Officer's, Reserve Corps, and assigned to active duty with the US 64th Infantry Regiment at El Paso, Texas. On November 15, 1917, he was commissioned a second lieutenant of Infantry in the Regular Army.

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