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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