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...John L. McNair-Sylvia Short (Concord...
...chances. He had covered London in the blitz, slugged across North Africa, landed with the troops in Sicily. He had been bombed, slightly wounded and awarded the Purple Heart at Anzio. He had gone into Normandy on D + 1 and later watched in horror as Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair and other Americans were killed by their own planes at Saint...
Nazi airborne coups in Crete and the Low Countries opened many military eyes, and some of the U.S. Army's best brains, including Air Forces General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold and the late, great Ground Forces chief, Lieut. General Lesley J. ("Whitey") McNair, lent support and advice to the U.S. paratroop and glider program. That program really got rolling in 1942, with the setting up of two full airborne divisions...
Bonnie Clare McNair, granddaughter of the late Lieut. General Lesley McNair, who was killed in action in Normandy last July, proudly wore two new decorations-the Legion of Merit, the Silver Star-posthumously awarded to her father, the late Colonel Douglas McNair, who was killed in action on Guam, twelve days after his father's death...
...Year I nominate the late Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair...