No this is not a movie still of Jimmy Stewart in the movie Strategic Air Command. In fact one James Stewart had a distinguished career in the Army Air Corp. As an actor he was nominated 100 times and awarded 50 times for his movie acting career including 1 Oscar for his role in The Philadelphia Story, Of course Stewart was honored with a start on the walk of fame.
But Stewart mainly wanted to be an officer in the Army Air Corp. And he did.
Although best known to the general public as Hollywood actor, Stewart had also enjoyed a remarkable and distinguished military career. He had seen the war clouds gathering and volunteered for service in 1940, joining the USAAC in March 1941 – a full nine months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States’ entry into the war. At the age of 33, Stewart was too old to be an aviation cadet, but used his own aircraft (a Stinson 105) to build hours until he qualified to enter as an experienced pilot. The gangling Stewart was also underweight, according to the Army Air Corps doctors, and he binged until he had put on the ten pounds necessary to meet the Army’s minimum weight requirement.
The National museum of the United States Air Force has this to say about Jimmy Stewarts career.
On March 22, 1941, Jimmy Stewart was drafted into the U.S. Armed Forces. He was assigned to the Army Air Corps as an enlisted man and stationed at Moffett Field, Calif. During his nine months of training at that base, he also took extension courses with the idea of obtaining a commission. He completed the courses and was awaiting the results when Pearl Harbor took place. A month later he received his commission, and because he had logged over 400 hours as a civilian, he was permitted to take basic flight training at Moffett and received his pilot wings. During the next nine months, he instructed in AT-6, AT-9 and B-17 aircraft and flew bombardiers in the training school at Albuquerque, N.M. In the fall of 1943, Stewart went to England as Commanding Officer of the 703d Bomb Squadron, equipped with B-24s.
He began flying combat missions and on March 31, 1944, was appointed Operations Officer of the 453rd Bomb Group and, subsequently, Chief of Staff of the 2nd Combat wing, 2nd Air Division of the 8th Air Force. Stewart ended the war with 20 combat missions. He remained in the USAF Reserve and was promoted to brigadier general on July 23, 1959. He retired on May 31, 1968.
Stewart shunned all the Elvis hype that surrounds Hollywood Stars. He served honorably and distinguished himself amongst his peers. His military (and one civilian) award are displayed below.
His final mission was in Viet Nam
BGen James M. Stewart flies his last mission
20 February 1966: Brigadier General James M. Stewart, United States Air Force Reserve, flew the last combat mission of his military career, a 12 hour, 50-minute “Arc Light” bombing mission over Vietnam, aboard Boeing B-52 Stratofortress of the 736th Bombardment Squadron, 454th Bombardment Wing. His bomber was a B-52F-65-BW, serial number 57-149, call sign GREEN TWO. It was the number two aircraft in a 30-airplane bomber stream.
Stewart retired May 31, 1968.
I just read Trump is going to suspend the security clearances of all 51 federal intel signers of the Hunter laptop letter declaring it a Russian op.
John Brennan, James Clapper, Michael Morelli, Michael Hayden, etc…I can’t believe my dream has actually come true.
Just read that Fred on Sanford and Son was younger than me.
I hate em
Good grief.
Following the 500-year freeze a few years ago, Texpat sent me this 20lbs. bucket of stuff to sprinkle on the wheelchair ramp. Glad I have it, because I darn sure forgot to buy rock salt.
My 4:48 – Philadelphia game.
I wondered how the yard numbers were staying snow free in perfect font so I had to look it up. They superimpose the numbers digitally, they are not there on replays. Cool dude.
Dr. Malones Sunday Strip:
The End is Near
Big time snowing in Philadelphia in the Eagle v LA Rams game.
I just spent the last few hours straightening up and setting up my new craft room. Was originally going to be a kitchenette / laundry room, but I think that now that the kids are gone we’re quite happy with the way things are. I’ve managed to throw away some stuff, and I remembered myself where things are, and I reminded myself of stuff I have that I had forgotten I had. So while I’m not ready to start sewing or anything yet, it does feel good to have a little bit more of a handle on my space.
The ancient city of Hebron is in southern Judea in Israel. The Arabs, US State Dept and Euros like to call it the West Bank. I only call it Judea.
Hebron has abut 200,000 residents and is run by Palestinians. This is the type of people they are.
30 years from now Joe Biden is going to be a trivia question, who was the President between Trump’s first and second term? ~ Bill Mc Gurn 😀
Just got home from church. We have metal doors from Mexico on our house, so they’re not insulated for cold weather. We need weatherstripping, too. I put some stripping in before, but it came out and Hubby just hasn’t prioritized it. I read that bubble wrap was originally designed as an insulator, so I bought a roll recently. I just covered the back front door with it and put a rag at the bottom of the door. I can already tell a difference. We recently purchased a rather large item that came with some foam pads as part of the… Read more »
This happened… DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Iran’s capital Saturday, officials said, both of whom allegedly took part in the mass execution of dissidents in 1988. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the shootings of the judges, clerics Mohammad Mogheiseh and Ali Razini. However, Razini’s involvement in the 1988 executions had likely made him a target in the past, including an assassination attempt in 1999. because this happened in 1988… International rights groups estimate that as many as 5,000 people were executed, while the MEK puts the number at 30,000. Iran has never… Read more »
Emmy Lou and Don sing Townes
I love this man. He and I are cut from the same whole. cloth.
The Hostage Deal BETRAYED Us All Yishai Fleisher
WTWDT Bout 16 minutes
You can spare 16 minutes can’t you?
Headcrusher made deep fried meatballs yesterday. I put a few in the air fryer just now and mmmmm they’re good.
The rodents are stoned out of their minds ! Drug-addicted rats’ are eating narcotics seized and stored by Houston police, prompting a change in how long the department is required to store the evidence, officials said.Houston Mayor John Whitmire, Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare and Houston Police Chief J. Noe Diaz on Friday announced new steps to dispose of drugs and other evidence kept at police headquarters downtown, some of which has been sitting there for decades, attracting rodents, even though cases they are linked to have long been adjudicated.Mayor Whitmire put it bluntly:We got 400,000 pounds of marijuana… Read more »
Britain all the way down…. First we have a hard-core leftwing outfit in Wales producing a video on X welcoming Arab male immigrants to the UK. They use 12 year old British school girls for this in the middle of the massive grooming rape gang scandal. The Labour government in the United Kingdom has blocked further progression of a bill aimed at outlawing first-cousin marriages, a practice particularly prevalent in certain Muslim communities. Conservative MP Richard Holden introduced the legislation, known as the Prohibition of First Cousin Marriages Bill, but Labour refused to advance it to the committee stage, drawing… Read more »
Saturday Night Live takes out Joy Reid, Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow in one shot. Beautiful !
RE: My 10:03 AM comment
When we went to start ripping out pipe in the beach house, we discovered the plumbing contractor on the original construction decided using unions was too much trouble. We had cut out endless runs of pipe by hand and it took forever. If I could have found that guy, I would have…
You have to see these charts from Steve Hayward. The ignorance in America about the history of slavery is astonishing. THE DAILY CHART: THE WAGES OF RACE-BAITINGAs is obvious to anyone with a brain and basic sense perception (this excludes leftists, needless to say), charging racism is the first refuge of leftist scoundrels today. But there is a body of demagogic agitprop, mostly coming out of the leftist gain-of-function labs we call universities, that what ails the world is white supremacy, etc. And thus polls show a large number of Americans think the police shoot unarmed blacks by the… Read more »
Well since I’ve been scrolling though the comments I’ll check in.
Mornin’ Gang
Starting with Alicia I have pictures of snow in the winter in the same winter a hurricane rolled through. Every time a hurricane has rolled through we have seen snow somewhere in the Houston area not to forget a deep freeze too.
Watch the lovely Kaleigh Mackeneny skewer a leftist, terrorist loving scumbag.
Dr phil
I think I’m in love.
🙂
Maher gets so much so right sometimes.
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1880745649500754431/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1880745649500754431¤tTweetUser=CitizenFreePres
When the Speaker knew Biden wasn’t in charge.
You thought the Wide World of Sports was over ?
We just had a power blink here. Glad we have our generator. I’d hate to lose power with this cold weather moving in.
Eight months ago, Shannon, my daughter and I were in the old Paramount Theater in downtown Austin watching Rhiannon sing this live. Her delivery was enough to almost bring tears to my eyes. She is a powerful force on a live stage.
Does Austin County have little miniature snow plows and blowers to remove that 1.5 inches coming on Wednesday ?
https://youtu.be/PWKekuUo_E4
Well it is still 65 degrees here right now but they say it’ll cool down to about 45 at daylight tomorrow and that will be our high for the day. The next time we’ll see anything near 60 will be next Friday. Highs in the 30’s-40’s all week and lows down to as low as 20 maybe.
And more banning, but not alt-rights banning books. Y’all remember the Wuhan Lab and EcoHealth, right? Speaking of banned companies, yesterday Science.com ran a story headlined, “Federal officials suspend funding to EcoHealth Alliance, the nonprofit entangled in COVID-19 origin debate.” The five-year ban extends to all federal contracts between the government and EcoHealth or its criminal founder, “Doctor Mengele” Peter Daszak./snipScience.com called the ban “possibly a mortal blow,” probably because neither Daszak nor EcoHealth has any customers apart from the United States government. But it is not as mortal of a blow as endured by people who died from Daszak’s genetically engineered bioweapon, the spike… Read more »
More media karma b-slapping, this time for ABC and its heavily edited Cackler interview that made her seem possibly sane – and Trump declared it election interference because the network was manipulating public sentiment based on “fake news”: That’s not all. You might recall that last month, ABC settled a different defamation case with President Trump for $15 million dollars. Well, guess what? It’s happening again. The Wall Street Journal ran a story yesterday headlined, “Exclusive | CBS Owner Discusses Settling Trump Suit, With Merger Review on Tap.”According to “people familiar with the situation,” top executives at Paramount Global, which… Read more »
Regarding the CNN legal loss: In the New York Times version, the Gray Lady glumly noted that “public opinion has turned sharply against news organizations.” You don’t say. Whatever could have caused that sharp turn in public opinion? (The Times wasn’t feeling introspective and didn’t speculate.) Could it be that the public doesn’t think corporate news should be trying to “nail” anybody, but rather, just report the news fairly and accurately?Anyway, the Bay County, Florida, jury returned its delightful verdict, awarding Zach $5 million in defamation damages, and finding CNN liable for punitive damages. A panicked CNN immediately settled for an undisclosed… Read more »
We all know that Trump is going to waste time: The all-business presidency is planning to get started as soon as the music stops on Monday. The Wall Street Journal ran an eye-popping story yesterday headlined, “Trump to Begin Large-Scale Deportations Tuesday.” They literally aren’t wasting a day. The sub-headline added, “Chicago will be an early target, with as many as 200 officers being sent to carry out the operation.” But the left hasn’t wasted time, either. The NGO’s are preparing themselves for a monumental struggle to preserve the illegal alien army they’ve painstakingly created over the last four years.… Read more »
My schedule has been so frantic lately, I keep running late with the C&C: Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Time for the final weekend edition of the Biden Regime. In a way, it feels like something will soon be rightfully restored; I started writing Coffee & Covid during Trump’s presidency, but never had a chance to really get going before I was very carefully writing about stolen elections, then mandates, and so on. In today’s weekend roundup: Trump Inauguration involved in last-minute venue swap as DC descends into deep freeze; Trump Admin plans to start checking off promises first thing… Read more »
According to this, January 20th is going to be a very dangerous day. wefightback2025.org. 70 cities ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS The People’s Forum • Palestinian Youth Movement • ANSWER Coalition • US Palestinian Community Network • Party for Socialism & Liberation • Labor on the Line • Black Men Build • Democratic Socialists of America • UAW 4811 • Dream Defenders • Unite Here Local 2 • United Educators of San Francisco • Artists Against Apartheid • Bangladeshi Americans for Political Progress • CODEPINK • Damayan • Diaspora Pa’lante Collective • IFCO/Pastors for Peace • Los Angeles Tenants Union • Nodutdol • Palestinian… Read more »
Living the Nightmare in LaLa Land. Let’s suppose you lived in Pacific Palisades in a single family residence. You bought on the low end of the market ($900K to $3.2M) for $1,000,000. You owe $650,000 on your mortgage and you had no insurance when your house burned down. You can’t afford to rebuild because you can’t get a new construction loan since you owe a mortgage holder $650K. The best offer you get is $400K for the vacant lot and you’ll still owe $250,000 on the house that burned down and you don’t have it. However, the mortgage holder won’t… Read more »
This utube video is horrifying on several levels, one being the destruction of really nice cars, another being the destruction on the inhabitants of same in real life.
Scary thought. There are many in the burned out LA that are not be able to rebuild. They gotta move somewhere.
Another thing, California was expected to lose as many as 8 seats (and also electoral votes) in the House after the 2030 Census. That was before the massive burnout.
The Texans are playing the Chiefs? Dang,… BTW; The boy is all excited about the game and thinks that Texas has a chance. He says that the Texans have Super Bowl caliber defense they just need some offense!! 😉
I sure hope a bunch of these burned out, leftist Hollywood types don’t decide to move to the Austin area.
Trudeau is gone, the Canadian Left is in shambles and now people are telling the government in Ottowa to shove it. Dang, things are looking up at least. Government of Saskatchewan says coal has a future. SaskPower is to look at running Poplar River and Boundary Dam Units 4,5 and 6 for decades to come, considering rebuilding them and ignoring federal coal mandate to shut down by 2030. Minister Jeremy Harrison was in Coronach and Estevan telling coal workers that coal has a future.Here’s the op-ed he submitted exclusively to Pipeline Online, explaining what was going on. I just had a detailed interview… Read more »
Die, ESG, die. And you too, Net Zero. Three of Canada’s biggest banks have quit a global climate alliance that aims to support the energy transition away from fossil fuels, just days before Donald Trump officially becomes the next president of the United States.On Friday, the Bank of Montreal, Toronto-Dominion Bank and National Bank of Canada said they have withdrawn from the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, which aims to align lending, investment and capital markets activity with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.The lenders join several big banks in the United States, such as JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group… Read more »
We have accepted an offer on our Bryan property.
I just told Lovely that it is the same feeling just after a tooth is pulled. That hole where there used to be something and now there’s nothing…
And y’all know I’m WELL aware of how that feels!
Please don’t let them screw this up. The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear parents’ challenge to a school district requirement forcing kids to participate in story times featuring books on gender and sexuality.In their petition, parents asked the Supreme Court to consider whether Montgomery County [Maryland] Board of Education’s decision to ignore their religious objections violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.The group of Christian and Muslim parents filed their lawsuit in May 2023 after the district refused to allow them to opt out.The school board “requires elementary school teachers to read their students storybooks celebrating gender transitions, Pride… Read more »
Interesting and a good thing. Hopefully others will follow suit.