Ralph P. Cousins, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRalph P. Cousins
US Army general
Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1891
Date of Death: 15-Mar-1964
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Ralph P. Cousins
- Ralph Pittman Cousins was an officer in the U.S.
- Army from 1915 to 1946.
- Born in Mexia, Texas in 1891, he graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1915.
- He served in the Cavalry before transferring to the Air Corps.
- He served in a variety of command position in the newly created air service of the U.S.
- Army and was instrumental in designing the model for what would become the commercial aviation system.
- His highest grade was a major general.
- Schools under his command trained many of the aircrews who served in all theaters of World War II.
- After retiring from the Army, he became a businessman.
- Cousins died in 1964.
- He was memorialized as an air pioneer who helped bring American air power from it beginnings to its power in World War II.
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