Re: Jimmy Stewart

On Jan 23, 2025 at 12:14:20 PM PST, "danny burstein" <dannyb@panix.com>
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?

He flew the Liberator. I just got the number wrong. Should have been B-24,
although he did fly B-52s after the war.