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Serial Fibber Brian Williams: JFK Served Under General Eisenhower in WWII
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| October 15, 2018
| P.J. Gladnick
Posted on 10/15/2018 12:55:14 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: NonValueAdded
To: al baby
i thought Ballsy Ford was raping Brian Williams with a beanbag chair???????
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posted on
10/15/2018 1:25:03 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: Tennessee Nana
They were under the command, obviously of the Commander In Chief, that being the President. In theater they came under the command of The Department of The Navy. Who I believe was Admiral Ernest King.
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posted on
10/15/2018 1:25:09 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: Tennessee Nana
Douglas Macarthur was Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific theater.
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posted on
10/15/2018 1:25:14 PM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: Tennessee Nana
"who was over the PT boats ???"Captain Binghamton?
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posted on
10/15/2018 1:25:19 PM PDT
by
Hatteras
To: 43north
That’s right!
JFK carried General Washington and his staff away from his disastrous defeats on Long Island in PT-109, before was run down by a British man-o-war in while serving in a squadron with John Paul Jones.
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posted on
10/15/2018 1:26:23 PM PDT
by
Little Ray
(Freedom Before Security!)
To: Hatteras
“McHale, you and your pirates!! LOL!
47
posted on
10/15/2018 1:26:31 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
The PT operations were run out of Tulagi, which was in Nimitz’s Area.
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posted on
10/15/2018 1:27:00 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: PJ-Comix
I didn’t know Ike was commander of the PT boat flotilla in WWII!!! Wow, all those history books I read were wrong. Man.
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posted on
10/15/2018 1:27:05 PM PDT
by
RetiredArmy
(We are in the Last Days of human history. Jesus is coming back, & soon! Do U know Him?)
To: PAR35
Interesting. I thought Macarthur had it all but more or less left the Navy autonomous since he didn’t really care about them so much.
50
posted on
10/15/2018 1:27:41 PM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: Tennessee Nana
On a side note: JFK was dating a gal (when she was married) who was Hitler's girlfriend at the 1936 Olympics at one point. Inga Arvad.
Hat tip to Sjackson.
![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3c/55/68/3c5568f375025beb11a7d8487654d26a.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inga_Arvad
Romance with John F. Kennedy and FBI investigation
In November 1941, while John F. Kennedy served as an ensign in the US Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence, he and Arvad began a romantic relationship.[4] Arvad was already being followed by the FBI due to the fact she was a resident alien and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had concerns that she was a German spy, as well as for previously being photographed meeting Hitler. When the FBI discovered that the "ensign Jack" who had been visiting Arvad was, in fact, a Kennedy, they extended their investigation through wiretaps.[6] There was no evidence found to show Arvad, who was married, guilty of "any wrongdoing". But that did not deter Hoover's FBI from the continued use of listening devices when Arvad and Kennedy were together.[9]
Kennedy's superior officer at the time, Captain Seymour A. D. Hunter, was quoted as saying that the U.S. Navy looked at Arvad as similar to Mata Hari. They thought she was using Kennedy to find out all she could about what was going on in the Navy Department. Captain Howard Klingman, then assistant director of the Office of Naval Intelligence, called Hunter into his office. Hunter was told that Kennedy needed to be put out of the Navy. Hunter pointed out that the situation was delicate because of Joseph P. Kennedy's having been United States Ambassador to England. However, he believed the young naval intelligence officer was not privy to information that would be "more than a bit embarrassing". Hunter advised that Kennedy be transferred to a seagoing unit.[3]
Kennedy was reassigned to a desk job in South Carolina in January 1942, and the relationship with Arvad ended after a few brief encounters. Kennedy later stated he thought Hoover might have had something to do with his transfer.[10] Kennedy and Arvad knew they were being followed, and in the FBI transcripts of their encounters they sometimes spoke to "whoever is listening".[citation needed] In the end, Inga reflected on her time with Kennedy as a "passing affair".[11]
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posted on
10/15/2018 1:27:51 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: pepsi_junkie
It’s like saying I served under Ronald Reagan. He was CINC, and I was an Ensign in the USCG.
To: Palio di Siena
Nimitz and mcarthur both had areas of responsibility. Nimitz was CINCPAC MacArthur SWPOA they were on the same level
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posted on
10/15/2018 1:29:29 PM PDT
by
sharkhawk
(Chelsea Dagger)
To: Tennessee Nana
For the Navy I believe it was Admiral King.
To: donaldo
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posted on
10/15/2018 1:31:33 PM PDT
by
OldCorps
To: MNJohnnie
Grant was a great General.He was. I tend to think Lee was the greatest commander of the war because he did so much with so little. However, one reason Lee had that one great year of victories was that all the Union commanders before Grant (and Meade) would retreat even though they outnumbered the Confederates in men and materiel.
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posted on
10/15/2018 1:32:28 PM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
To: Theoria
Well technically he is somewhat correct as JFK’s oldest brotherJoe Kennedy served on the ETO and was killed in a secret mission taking off a remote controlled war weary B-24 loaded with high explosives exploded just after take off...
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
JFK wasn't in the same command chain, but was obviously outranked by Ike.
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posted on
10/15/2018 1:36:24 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: BlueLancer
Right, but I was just thinking who the top Navy guy in the Pacific was - the equivalent of Eisenhower.
To: Tennessee Nana
Probably Nimitz, but he shared command with McCarthur so who knows.
He would have been correct if he had stepped up a notch to Marshall. Marshall owned the whole show.
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posted on
10/15/2018 1:38:51 PM PDT
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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