TWINING DIES AT 92!
16 May 1996 19:17:24 GMT / posted May 22, 1996
Source: Systems Analysis Synthesis inc.
By Dr. Richard X. Frager
Marine Gen. Merrill Twining died at the age of 92 last Saturday in
Fallbrook, California. Twining help planned the Aug. 7, 1942 landing on
Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. The landing,
the first offensive action by the U.S. land, sea and air units in what
would become the long road to Tokyo, ended with the Japanese evacuation
Feb. 9, 1943. In Nov. 1943, he was reassigned to Quantico, where he
served until 1947. By 1952, when he rejoined the 1st Marine Division as
assistant division commander, the Korean War was in its second year and
he was a major general.
Twining was given four-star rank on retirement in 1959.
Twining was the brother of Air Force Gen. Nathan Twining, a former
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and author of the Twining Memo.
In September of 1947, General Nathan Twining was head of Air Materiel
Command and General George Schulgen headed the Air Intelligence
Requirements Division at the Pentagon. Twining's memo was in response
to a request from Air Intelligence concerning "flying disks." Twining
stated, in part: "The phenomenon reported is something real and not
visionary or fictitious...There are objects probably approximating the
shape of a disk, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as
man-made aircraft...The reported operating characteristics such as
extreme rates of climb, maneuverability...and action which must be
considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and
radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are
controlled either manually, automatically or remotely."
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