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Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest
III
Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, Memphis, Tennessee
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Nathan Bedford Forrest III, Airman
Brigadier General N.B. Forrest, III, U.S. Army Air
Force, was born in Memphis on April 7, 1905 and was
the first American General Officer killed in combat
against the nazis during World War II. He died whil
participating in a B-17 bomber raid on Kiel,
Germany, June 13, 1943.
A 1928 graduate of West Point, he served as Second
Air Force Chief of Staff prior to transfer to the
U.S. Eighth Air Force in England. He was the some of
Memphians Nathan Bedford Forrest II and Mattie
Patton Forrest, and great-grandson of Confederate
Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest. In 1949, his
body was returned from Germany and reburied in
Arlington National Cemetery. - Tennessee Historical
Commission.
In Memory of Nathan B. Forrest III
BG US Army Air Corps
World War II
April 5, 1905 - June 13, 1943
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