Great article.
I also did not know Jimmy Stewart lost a son in Vietnam. Jimmy was another great one, actor and American.
I also did not know Jimmy Stewart lost a son in Vietnam. Jimmy was another great one, actor and American.
I didn't know that! Jimmy and the Duke were great in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence"
Indeed. I was astonished to learn that Jimmy's final mission as an Air Force reservist was - at his request - a B-52 bombing mission over North Vietnam.
Indeed, and one who flew combat missions in eigth Air Force B-24s in WW-II, he'd also flown B-17s stateside. Eventually retired from the USAF reserve as a one star general in 1968. He was 32 years old when he joined up, about 9 months BEFORE Pearl Harbor, for the war he knew was coming.
After Stewart's death in 1997, Air Power History published a memoriam that included this little-known item: "In 1966, during his annual two weeks of active duty, Stewart requested a combat assignment and participated in a bombing strike over Vietnam. In 1969 Stewart's stepson, 1st Lt. Ronald McLean, was killed at age 24 in the Vietnam War.
Perhaps because Lt. McLean was not "Lt. Stewart" is the reason so many of us had not known of him.