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A photo would be nice. --WayneNight 23:34, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] German orgin?

"...officer in the U.S. army under true name of Adolph Charles Weidenbach, born in Heidelberg, March 8, 1892. ... he became Douglas MacArthur's chief of intelligence for the war in the Pacific, he was Major General Charles A. Willoughby."

According to www site. maebrussell.com Willoughby's true name is Weidenbach and he is of German orgin. What is the truth? If you read the information on the web site there is some convuluted Nazi connection with Willoughby to a JFK conspiricy theory. --TGC55 03:01, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

According to this [1], from a U.S. Army site, his original name was Weidenbach. I'm updating the page to reflect that. --Nobunaga24 10:05, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Minutemen

Section 7, "Retirement, Death and Legacy" contains the phrase, "In his later years, Willoughby...work[ed] closely with Texas oil tycoon H.L. Hunt...[who] had connections to para-military groups such as the John Birch Society and the Minutemen."

This is followed immediately by a note in bold type that states..."Note: The Minutemen were created three decades after Willoughby's death, so whomever wrote that is stretching the truth at best."

Unfortunately, whoever added that note is unfamiliar with the history of that period; and as a result, their note is entirely incorrect.

The original article's assertions about the Minutemen were correct, there was in fact an extreme right wing paramilitary organization, founded in 1959 by Robert DePugh, called the Minutemen. Credible reports from that period place the membership in the tens of thousands, with active cells extending across the country. The end came for this organization, in the mid to late 60's, with law enforcement raids on extremely large Minutemen arms caches that yielded, among other items, grenades, mortars, bazookas, machine guns and bombs. IIRC, they even found a tank at one of the arms caches in southern California.

If anyone has an interest in researching DePugh's Minutemen, start with this Wiki article: "Minutemen (anti-Communist organization)" and then move on to Google, where there is still quite a bit of info on DePugh's Minutemen. I believe that the remnant of that Minuteman organization, that escaped the long arm of the law, reorganized under the name Omega Group, or something like that, located in the Spokane, Washington area.

Obviously, there is no relationship between the Minutemen Project founded by Jim Gilchrist in 2005, to monitor the flow of illegal aliens across our border with Mexico, and the violent paramilitary Minutemen organization created in 1959 by Robert DePugh.

Boot 09:24, 2 March 2007 (UTC)