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between 1930 and 1944. Then it would have made more sense that he was a LT. Col. when he made his
Noramndy jump. There is absolutly no way that he could have made Lt. Col in 4 years. Tell you what, let's try to dig out some more info. and if we can't. I'll take my changes and rephrase the article in
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have him as class of 1940. Still don't believe it. The army started promoting rapidly in the late thirties but these were mostly senior officers. Still he was only twenty-five in 1940 so consider the issue closed. It would be nice to snag his service record and check out all those promotions.
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