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Gavin, James

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Gavin, James (Maurice) (1907–1990)

US soldier. Known as ‘Jumping Jim’ Gavin, in August 1944 he became commander of the 82nd Airborne Division – the youngest division commander of World War II. During the 1950s he developed a reputation as a strategist of limited war. Gavin was appointed ambassador to France by President Kennedy in 1961. He was born in New York City. An orphan, he grew up in coal mining towns in Pennsylvania, enlisted in the army, and won a place at West Point, from which he graduated in 1929. His memoir, On to Berlin, appeared in 1978.



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