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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Jimmy Stewart
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 07:55:02 -0800
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On 1/23/2025 12:14 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?
> 
B-24.

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