Subj : Re: Japanese Common Sens
To   : BOB KLAHN
From : BOB BREED
Date : Thu Jul 04 2013 08:54:00



 BB> Carlson, of the Carlson Raiders spent a lot of time with
 BB> them and liked the no real leader concept - something his
 BB> fellow Marine officers would never buy. "Carlson may be RED
 BB> but he's not YELLOW"

 BK>  Don't think that would work for any military unit.

Seemed to work for his raiders.  Most recall the name from the Makin Island
raid, later made into a WWII propaganda film titled "Gung Ho" starring Randolph
Scott as Carlson.

Raid was a cluster fuck BTW.

 BB> Then some other groups supplying them to fight the
 BB> Japanese.  These later groups said if we would have sided
 BB> with Mao et al after WWII it might have possible to keep
 BB> them from going hard core commie when the finally did take
 BB> over?

 BK>  Just like we might have kept Vietnam from going communist if we
 BK>  had blocked France from taking over again after the war.

Yeah, they came back then finally had to give up. By that time it was way too
late to save it from Commie takeover.

 BB> Who knows for sure?

 BK>  Exactly.

 BB> One thing that has come out is that Chaing was actually
 BB> selling permits to raid our supply lines. :)

 BK>  For that we should have executed him. If our govt knew at the
 BK>  time.


 Oh, most believe it was known - but he was our ally against the horrid commies
- so easy to overlook little things like this. :)

Tom Chamalis(sp) wrote a book titled "Never so Few" that covered this permit
thing.  Book came out just before war ended.


 
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