re: #502 William Lewis

I had heard about the filming though not about the nurses. He should have been shot for how criminally unprepared the PI was for the war. Still I will grant the one thing he did well was managing the Japanese transition to democracy after the war.

I have little regard for most of our generals in WWII. The best two were not on the field of battle - Ike & Marshall. Patton or Bradley? Who cares! At least they weren’t quite as bad as Monty but that’s not saying much.

No, we won the war despite our generals because we had such excellent officers at the company to brigade level able to deal with situations as they happened. See Ltc (later 4 star & tank namesake) Creighton Abrams or Capt Charles B. MacDonald (author of several volumes about the battle of the Bulge as well as the exquisite memoir “Company Commander”)

Dick Winters. Fine man. We also had great NCOs like my cousin, Mike Strank too.