Esp. that paragraph.........the places really seem familiar...........4 corners.........in the desert sw............consist of the meeting of 4 states........Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado............Jimmy was even in a Hitcock thriller, the one with Grace Kelly, Rear Window....................Iowa,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Carey Grant in North by North West was out in Iowa, a rural area............and a crop duster came down and swooped him.............................


Stewart was concerned that his expertise and celebrity status would relegate him to instructor duties "behind the lines."^[40] His fears were confirmed when after his promotion to first lieutenant on July 7, 1942,^[41] he was stationed from August to December 1942 at Kirtland Army Airfield inAlbuquerque, New Mexico, piloting AT-11 Kansans used in training bombardiers. He was transferred to Hobbs Army Airfield, New Mexico, for three months of transition training in the four-engine B-17 Flying Fortress, then sent to the Combat Crew Processing Center in Salt Lake City, where he expected to be assigned to a combat unit. Instead he was assigned in early 1943 to an operational training unit, the 29th Bombardment Group atGowen Field, Boise, Idaho, as an instructor.^[35] He was promoted to captain on July 9, 1943,^[41] and appointed a squadron commander.^[36] For Stewart, now 35, combat duty seemed far away and unreachable and he had no clear plans for the future. However, a rumor that Stewart would be taken off flying status and assigned to making training films or selling bonds called for immediate action, because what he dreaded most was "the hope-shattering spectre of a dead end."^[42] Stewart appealed to his commander, 30-year-old Lt. Col. Walter E. Arnold Jr., who understood his situation and recommended Stewart to the commander of the 445th Bombardment Group, a B-24 Liberator unit that had just completed initial training at Gowen Field and gone on to final training at Sioux City Army Air Base, Iowa.^[43][