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From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Jimmy Stewart
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:14:20 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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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?



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