Subj : Japanese Common Sens
To   : BOB BREED
From : BOB KLAHN
Date : Wed Jul 10 2013 19:19:30



 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.

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

 BB> Raid was a cluster fuck BTW.

 Sounds like it *DIDN'T work.

 I remember the movie.

 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.

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

 Yep. They hadn't rebuilt their country yet and tried to run on
 half way around the world.

 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.


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

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

 The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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