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Fred Kornet

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Fred Kornet, Jr.
Born(1919-10-02)October 2, 1919
Wortendyke, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedJune 22, 2018(2018-06-22) (aged 98)
Madison, Mississippi, U.S.
Allegiance United States
Service / branchUnited States Army
Years of service1940–1975
RankLieutenant general

Fred Kornet Jr. (October 2, 1919 – June 22, 2018) was an American lieutenant general in the United States Army. He served as commander of the U.S. Army Aviation Systems Command.[1][2]

Born and raised in the Wortendyke section of Midland Park, New Jersey, Kornet graduated from Pompton Lakes High School in 1936 and then attended Lehigh University, where he majored in chemical engineering. He enlisted in the United States Army in February 1941.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ "Lieutenant General Fred Kornet Jr., Ordnance Corps Hall of Fame Inductee 1982, U.S. Army Ordnance Corps". goordnance.army.mil. Retrieved 2015-05-24.
  2. ^ "Lt. General Fred Kornet Jr". Dignity Memorial. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  3. ^ Hearings Before and Special Reports Made by Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on Subjects Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments, p. 7735. United States Government Printing Office, 1970. Accessed May 4, 202. "Fred Kornet Jr. was born in Wortendyke, N. J., on 2 October 1919. He graduated from high school in Pompton Lakes, N. J. He received his bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Lehigh University in 1940. He began his active Army career in February 1941 as a second lieutenant in the Ordinance Corps, assigned to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland."
  4. ^ "Pompton High Graduates", The Morning Call , June 22, 1936. Accessed may 4, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "The following 32 Midland Park students were graduated at Pompton Lakes High school Friday night... The honor students from. Midland Park are Fred Kornet, Jr, and Cornelius Alfred Roughgarden."