14 Feb 98 15:29, Hal Hanig wrote to Jim Sanders:
JS>>> Trivia: Dwight D. Eisenhower was on the list to be discharged
JS>>> as an "over age in grade" major when WW II crisis started. He was
JS>>> on General MacArthur's staff at that time.
HH> If I'm not mistaken, he was on MacArthur's "S" list as well, and they
HH> cordially disliked or despised one another.
It must have killed that pompous ass that Ike passed him by, both during the
war and after.....
Jay
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