Posted by Donal D. Kavanagh on April 25, 2000:

I was Jimmie's roomate for the last two years of our time at West Point. I hunted with him in San Antonio and met him again by odd chance in London in the spring of 1950 while I was delivering documents to South Ryslip early one Saturday AM. After leaving ( I had just finished a classified mission up at Greenham Common and had been traveling all night so was a bit of a mess). I was looking for a room early Saturday AM and just happened to meet Jimmie and Yvonne as they were walking out of their hotel en route to Greece. I borrowed their room to clean up in. In 1953 I was flying B-29s over Korea out of Yokoda with the 98th Bomb Group. We had flak suppression help from the B-26s of the 3rd Bomb Wing. While we cruised at 30,000 in the dark, the B-26s flew up and down the mountains at tree level attacking any gun emplacements that they saw shooting at us. I came back from one of these missions and was advised that the General's son had been lost that night. I hope "Greasy" is still setting swiming records somewhere.

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