HAL,
In a message dated 02-14-98 you wrote ...
> 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.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, he was on MacArthur's "S" list as well, and they
> cordially disliked or despised one another.
One of the great "IFS".. If Andrews had lived, it may
have been another story... Eisenhower lost many men in
a useless manner, The "Practice" invasion, the battle of
bulge are a couple. He and Montgomery were really a
useless pair. We won in spite of them......
-=* Jim Sanders *=-
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