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echo: aviation
to: HAL HANIG
from: JIM SANDERS
date: 1998-02-16 11:42:00
subject: Re: sea harrier

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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