[warchild9]

William J. Federer is hilarious.

An accountant turned television historian. Very funny that anyone but religious kooks would take him seriously.

/My father met MacArthur as a teenaged Marine in Korea. Said he was the biggest As!hole he ever met.

//As a professional historian, I consider him a fairly good general who surrounded himself with an excellent staff.

[PAR35]

As a professional historian, I consider him a fairly good general who surrounded himself with an excellent staff.

He got caught flat footed at least 3 times. He should have been sacked after the first fiasco. He got a lot of good soldiers killed through his incompetence.

[Dan(9698)]

MacArthur found out Charles Lindbergh was in the south pacific and had him come to Australia for a meeting.

During their visit, he found out that Lindbergh could increase the range of P38 fighters by 700 miles by properly adjusting the engine controls.

MacArthur had him go around to the Army units and teach the pilots how to do it.

That is what started the Island hopping strategy where they didn't need to capture every inland for air strips.

It also made it possible to have enough range to shoot down Yamamoto.

[dsc]

“My father met MacArthur as a teenaged Marine in Korea. Said he was the biggest As!hole he ever met.”

Asked with the deepest possible respect for your father, is it unusual that a teenaged fire-eater thinks a 70-year-old authority figure is an asshole?