Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jay Thorpe Robbins (September 16, 1919 March 3, 2001) was a career officer in the United States Air Force who rose to the rank of lieutenant general.He started his Air Force career in 1941. He spent his wartime service in the Fifth Air Force in the Southwest Pacific. He rose to command the 8th Fighter Group. At war's end he was a quadruple ace with 22 kills.After the war, he rose in command and retired, in 1974, as vice-commander of the Military Airlift Command.