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Subject: Re: Jimmy Stewart
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:03:22 -0500
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On 2025-01-23 3:14 PM, danny burstein wrote:
> In <vmu7ol$1phml$3@dont-email.me> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> writes:
> 
>> I just learned something I never knew:
> 
>> Jimmy Stewart (the actor) was a soldier in WWII and rose from the rank of
>> private to colonel during the war and retired in 1968 as a 2-star general.
>> He's only one of a handful of soldiers who have accomplished that dramatic a
>> rise through the ranks of the Army. And he wasn't just doing "celebrity duty"
>> in the Army, either. During the war, he flew dozens of B-52 combat sorties
>> over Nazi Germany.
> 
> "B-52 combat sorties over Nazi Germany".  Really now?
> 
> 
> 
Good catch. The B-52 didn't enter service until 1955. Stewart flew B-17s 
during the war. He qualified on B-47s and B-52s AFTER WWII.

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Rhino