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To: rlmorel

Colonel Jack D. Ripper.


60 posted on 12/26/2018 2:43:45 PM PST by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: jmacusa

Funny thing, at the beginning of the movie (during the intro) they go out of their way to specifically state “any resemblance to a living person is strictly coincidental” but given the way the Left is, General Jack D. Ripper is, in their mind, modeled after nearly every officer in the military who ever put on a uniform.

I have heard it said they modeled him after Gen. Curtis LeMay. They sure like to paint LeMay as insane, that is for sure.

I suppose some of his own men thought he was insane when he ordered the bombing raids on Japan that had been ineffective at 25,000 feet to be changed to 7,000 - 10,000 feet.

But he was right...it worked, and that was the end of Imperial Japan.


62 posted on 12/26/2018 6:59:03 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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