Lewis H. Brereton

Lewis Hyde Brereton was a military aviation pioneer and lieutenant general in the United States Air Force. A 1911 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, he began his military career as a United States Army officer in the Coast Artillery Corps prior to World War I, then spent the remainder of his service as a career aviator.

Brereton was born in Pittsburgh, in 1890, the second son of William Denny Brereton and Helen Brereton. The family moved to Annapolis, Maryland while Breretons older brother, William Jr., was a midshipman at the Naval Academy. His father was a successful mining engineer and a 4thgeneration IrishAmerican. His mother was English and Episcopalian by birth. At the age of eight, Brereton suffered a recurring infection of the middle ear, purulent otitis media, which proved impossible to treat in the preantibiotics era.

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