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.   
      
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