Posted on 10/15/2018 12:55:14 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Serial fibber Brian Williams told yet another whopper on Friday night from his home in MSNBC exile known as The 11th Hour with Brian Williams. So what else is new? What makes his latest historical untruth ironically special is it came as Williams along with historian Michael Beschloss were fact checking President Donald Trump for a supposed error he made during his speech at a rally in Lebanon, Ohio on Friday.
For years following the Civil War, many historians as well as much of the public in general discounted the military abilities of General Ulysses S. Grant by claiming he was able to accomplish his victories primarily due to the overwhelming men and material of the North as well as being willing to expend both in a more than necessary manner on the battlefield. So when Trump mentioned in his speech that Grant is finally being respected as a great general as has happened, this set both Brian Williams and Beschloss off in snark mode.
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I wasn’t aware that Ike used PT-109 during the D-Day invasion as a supply boat...
I think that, because PT boats were pretty much deployed as squadrons within a command area, the Area Commander was in charge of the PT boats within his command. So, unlike submarines or destroyers, which could move independently between command areas on assignment, the PT boats remained within one area unless the squadron as a whole was reassigned.
Lyin’ Brian was there as well.
I worked for two years in Tulsa as claims rep for SSA.
One guy I met and got to talk to extensively was a captain in JFK’s PT boat squadron.
Of course I asked him about Kennedy. His reply was basically that he was well liked but getting rammed by a destroyer was about the worst thing that could happen to you. They were the fastest thing on the ocean.
I think it was Captain Binghamton
What a dummy. JFK was under Gen. George Washington
when he crossed the Potomac on PT-109.
At least get your facts straight.
PT 109 could have also been under General Douglas MacArthur, who’s command covered the Western Solomon Islands.
Nimitz and McArthur ran separate areas of operations in the Pacific.
If JFK was alive today and serving in congress he would be one of the more conservative members.
OR at the moment PT-109 was rammed it would have been a Jap Cruiser- Technically.
I sense that this Question is turning into a Skirmish that may end up in a Full Scale Historically Correct Reenactment.
(Like that could EVER happen here on FR)
I’m going to pull back to a safe Distance and Observe.
Capt. Parmenter
PT Boats were used to clear mines and other obstacles at Utah Beach on D Day. I believe John Buckley, who commanded PT 41 when it took MacArthur off Corregidor, was at Utah Beach.
Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy
ANY kin to LOOSE LIPS ??
Brian Williams was with JFK and Ike when the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor...
Web does little to clear up who commanded exactly what.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_West_Pacific_theatre_of_World_War_II
PT-109 was sunk in the Solomon Islands but it was close to where Nimitz’s area met MacArthur’s.
Fairly common name.
Brian Williams was smokin a blunt sitting on a bean bag chair when Ballsey ford was being gang rape by everyone but Kavanaugh
They drew an artificial line in the Pacific. Navy was in charge (Nimitz) on one side of the line, Army (MacArthur) on the other side.
I had to look it up - MacArthur had the Southwest Pacific - Australia, South China Sea, New Guinea, the Philippines, most of Indonesia (Dutch East Indies), Bismark Archipelago and most of the Solomons. Nimitz had the rest of the Pacific.
I think, but am not sure, that Guadalcanal fell on Nimitz's side of the line even though it was in the Solomons. - Found the answer to that - the line ran between the Santa Cruz Islands (Nimitz) and Tugali (MacArthur) so the line was shifted 60 miles west to give the whole operation to Nimitz.
Additional background on the rivalry here
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a528913.pdf
(sorry, cut and paste).
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