General Jacob Edward Smart (May 31, 1909-November 12, 2006) was a U.S. Army Air Force leader in World War II and Cold War era Air Force general. Smart was born in Ridgeland, South Carolina, the son of a railroad conductor, and was educated in the public schools of South Carolina and Georgia, and at Marion Military Institute in Marion, Alabama. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1931 and entered flight training with the Army Air Corps. Wikipedia
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Obituary for General Jacob Smart from The Times and Sunday Times. Jacob Smart was the US Army Air Forces planner who conceived the low-level attack by Liberator bombers on the oil refineries at Ploesti in Romania in August 1943. www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2486685,00.html
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General Jacob Edward Smart is deputy commander in chief of the U.S. European Command, senior U.S. military headquarters in Europe. www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=7165
Gen. Smart was chief of flight training at Air Corps headquarters in Washington when the United States entered World War II in December 1941. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/16/...
