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to the general in 69-70 at the US Army Aviation
Systems Command in St. Louis, MO. This information was last updated 05/18/2016
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03/10/2024
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MG John (Jack) Norton was the commanding
general of the 1st Cavalry Division in 1966 in
Vietnam. He graduated from flight school in 1956
and was one of the early pioneers of Army
Aviation. He was both rotary and fixed wing
qualified. He passed away on Dec. 15, 2004. He
retired from the US Army as a LTG. He is also in
the US Army Aviation Hall of Fame. Ironically, on
D Day he was a LTC in the 82nd Airborne and
landed on a cow when he jumped into France. That
was a very interesting story as was the rest of
the D-Day adventure that he talked about one time
to us in the office.
From: John Waldi