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"Fantasy" Films

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Fri Jun 28 10:10:30 PDT 2002

frankNfi <frankNfi at zip.com.au> writes:

> Heinlein seems to me to have written in Starship Troopers an
> extrapolation of his experience in the US Navy in the
> Pacific in WW2, all duty , inhuman enemy and being drooped into &
> pulled out of the fighting to the safety of the ships.

Interesting theory, but Heinlein was medically retired from the Navy
in, I believe, 1934; before the war, anyway.
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