[ken5050]

Purely from an actuarial basis, I'd doubt if there were any surviving general, or flag rank officers, from WW II.

Another interesting fact...at the height of WW II, with some 16 million Americans in the military, there were FEWER generals or admirals than we have now..with the military less than 20% of WW II strength..

[Joe 6-pack]

"Purely from an actuarial basis, I'd doubt if there were any surviving general, or flag rank officers, from WW II."

Yep...that's why I worded my question, "who was (is?)..."

If there was anyone still around, they would have to have been exceptionally young, probably pinned on their first star at the very tail end of the war, and would have to be exceptionally old now, and nobody fitting that description readily comes to mind. Hence my question...who was the last one to have died?

[truth_seeker]

“Another interesting fact...at the height of WW II, with some 16 million Americans in the military, there were FEWER generals or admirals than we have now..with the military less than 20% of WW II strength.. “

Yes, we sure do have alot of powdered princes, don’t we?

And they haven’t decisively won a major war since WWII. Can’t defeat rebels in Afghanistan in over ten years.

(just for interest sake, study “denazification” and compare that to our concepts for dealing with muslims)