[clintonh8r]

If Downs is 90 now he would have been 17 in 1944 when he was an officer on Bradley’s staff. Hmmmmm.....

[Wilhelm Tell]

“If Downs is 90 now he would have been 17 in 1944 when he was an officer on Bradley’s staff. Hmmmmm.....”

Good thinking, applying a little math. Yeah, a 17 year-old officer on Bradley’s staff - I am rather skeptical. And how likely is it that there was a Nazi spy in Eisenhower’s staff? A spy high up enough to have known about the secret mission? Somehow any spies missed out on important details about, I don’t know, D-Day, but a spy knew all about Miller’s alleged mission?

[PLMerite]

There’s a Hunton Leache Downs in Asheville who is 98.

[Sequoyah101]

A 17 year old Ltd col? Not likely

I call bravo SIERRA on this story.

[IYAS9YAS]

If Downs is 90 now he would have been 17 in 1944 when he was an officer on Bradley’s staff. Hmmmmm.....

Bradley served to August 1953. The story never said Downs was on Bradley's staff during the war.

It's very possible he was on Bradley's staff in the late '40s or early '50s.

I'm not saying Downs' claim is correct or true, I'm just saying that the claim he'd have only be 17 in 1944 is not relevant to the article.