Biography
January 2nd, 2009 From
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>From: rickt@cris.com (Eric Bergerud)
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> >At 10:02 PM 11/10/97 -0500, Tom Robison wrote:
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> >>I had forgotten that Halsey made 5-stars. I thought there were only five
> >>who made 5-star rank, namely Eisenhower, MacArthur, Bradley, Nimitz, and
> >>Arnold.
> >
> >You’re still leaving out a couple. Leahy, Marshall, King, MacArthur,
> >Nimitz, Eisenhower, Arnold, and, later, Halsey, and finally, Bradley. I
> >believe that is the correct order of their seniority but I haven’t a
> >reference at hand to check.
> >
> >No picture of all of them together was ever taken. The most would be
> >Leahy, Marshall, King, and Arnold, though there are a lot of pictures of
> >King and Nimitz and Nimitz and Halsey and a few of Marshall and MacArthur.
> >Not an easy group to gather together amicably!
> >
> >Marc
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> >
>Pity there isn’t some way to give Washington an extra star. I’ll grant that
>Marshall deserved the fifth, but none of the others were in the same league
>with father George. Good men all mind you, in their own ways, but I don’t
>see a Hap Arnold obelisk on the Mall in Washington DC any time soon.
>Eric Bergerud, 531 Kains Ave, Albany CA 94706, 510-525-0930