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On 2025-01-23 20:14:20 +0000, danny burstein said:
> 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?

Does seem unlikely since the B-52 wasn't even in military service until 
1955, 10 years after World War II ended ... unless he was doing it just 
for fun.   ;-)

Stewart did of course fly bombing missions over Germany in earlier B-24 planes.