Birthday: LTG(R) James Gavin (1907)

ON THIS DATE IN AIRBORNE HISTORY: 22 MAR 1907

Jumpin' Jim Gavin was born in in Brooklyn, NY. 

James Maurice Gavin (March 22, 1907 – February 23, 1990), sometimes called "Jumpin' Jim" and "the jumping general", was a senior United States Army officer, with the rank of lieutenant general, who was the third Commanding General (CG) of the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. During the war, he was often referred to as "The Jumping General" because of his practice of taking part in combat jumps with the paratroopers under his command; he was the only American general officer to make four combat jumps in the war.

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