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Born | Portland, Oregon, U.S. | 10 August 1895
Died | 19 August 1978 Annandale, Virginia, US | (aged 83)
Buried | Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Texas, U.S. |
Allegiance | United States |
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Years of service | 1918–1953 |
Rank | Brigadier General |
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Frederick von Harten Kimble (10 August 1895 – 19 August 1978) was a United States Air Force brigadier general. Kimble graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in June 1918 with the lowest grades in his class. He was commissioned in the Infantry Branch but transferred to the United States Army Air Corps in 1926. During World War II, he commanded the Air Corps Advanced Flying School where the Tuskegee Airmen were trained, and the island of Tinian, from which the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were launched.