Talk:Lyman Lemnitzer

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HI! ANY INFO ON HIS MASONIC LEVEL? as he clearly in the picture shows his masonic ring, he must have been initiated, and as a general he must have had quite high rank. thks for including info in the article as it is vital in the life of an idividual to meddle with war and lodges. (shemyaza) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.23.5.49 (talk) 20:19, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

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"Body of Secrets" by James Bamford, chapter 4, page 64, last paragraph: 1. "Studious, handsome, thoughtful-looking," said one newspaper. Nevertheless, he [Lemnitzer] had completed only two years of college at West Point, because of the need for officers during World War I. But by the time he was rushed out of the Military Academy, the war had ended. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.31.138.234 (talk) 09:40, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Jew?
Was he of Jewish descent/origin ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.115.143.143 (talk) 15:26, 7 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Why does it matter? SASH155 (talk) 19:05, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes. This whole website is dedicated to cataloging every detail about peoples' lives; don't be an uninterested idiot, either care about every fact or gtfo 2600:1004:B0C6:C645:80BA:9212:EB2F:A8D6 (talk) 21:03, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
 * hi, so i'm aware this was YEARS ago, but Lemnitzer was my grandma's cousin, and i've recently begun questioning if we are indeed jewish. i'm planning on taking a DNA test, and if it comes back with any significant results, I will update 24.196.248.75 (talk) 23:54, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Any update? 2A00:23C7:A8A3:E501:3431:520F:FEB3:50A8 (talk) 17:41, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

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Later life and death
"General Lemnitzer is one of only four officers in the history of the United States Army to have actively served as a general during three major wars..." Interesting indictment on Wikipedia. Reading through Gen. Hershey's page referenced as one of these 4 Generals, we find the contradiction that Hershey is one of 6 such Generals. Go pull a Ctrl+F on Hershey with the search, "officers in the history of the United States Army to have actively served as a general" to immediately find the list of 6 such persons there. There are 4 named persons with Wiki pages here, and 6 such persons with the same such qualifications, and each list is "ONE OF ONLY". The list is 4 deep, or it is 6 deep, not both. 2600:8801:2380:F400:9D70:965:2060:4430 (talk) 05:44, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

Re: Photo of Lemnitzer with “M-16” (sic.)
The rifle that Lemnitzer is seen sighting down the barrel of in this photo is in fact an Armalite AR-10, not an M-16. The AR-10 was a 7.62x51mm NATO rifle developed before the AR-15, what would later become the M-16 series. Indeed, the M-16 did not exist as we know it today in 1958 when this photo was taken. There were, on the other hand, some early AR-15 prototypes that were undergoing testing by the Army in the late 1950s alongside the AR-10 seen here. There are a number of distinctive characteristics on the weapon we see here that indicate this is indeed an AR-10, not an AR-15 or the later M-16 - a weapon that did not come out until 1962 when they Air Force made its first purchases of them from Colt. First the size of the rifle is quite a bit larger than the AR-15, the charging handle is mounted on top of the receiver (the thing that looks like a trigger inside the carrying handle) as it was with the very earliest AR-15 prototypes, the flash hider is the distinctive type used on the early AR-10s made by Armalite and the hand guard is the early tapered, round type used on the early AR-10s. SASH155 (talk) 19:30, 27 July 2022 (UTC)SASH155