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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