Posted on 03/22/2017 7:06:19 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
To BluePlum.. Nice summary of Japanese attacks on MAINLAND US, not including the Aleutian campaigns/Alaska.
Re the German saboteur George Dasch, who turned himself in to the FBI in NY City, here’s something you probably won’t find in most history books.
Dasch, after landing near NY City, decided he wanted to turn himself in, so he found a phonebooth and called the FBI office.
The rookie FBI agent who took that midnight call was William “Bill” Furcolow (his brother was also an FBI agent).
Bill, thinking that this was a trick being played on him as a rookie, by some fellow agents, almost hung up on Dasch.
But, as he told me/our class at No. Va. Community College (in Police Science which he taught), his training kicked in and he put Dasch on hold.
Then he went downstairs to talk to his superior SAC who had gone there for a late dinner while Bill tookover the office.
His superior came up and took the call, and the rest is history.
Now, just to tease you late night Freepers, one of my other friends (and Board of Advisors to a newsletter I was Associate Editor of), was Ray Wannell, a former Assistant Director of the FBI for Counter-Intelligence. He ran the “SOLO” operation for decades until it was finally released to the public in another one of our luncheon group’s members, John Barron of Reader’s Digest.
John had been working on Operation SOLO for 10 years before the FBI allowed it to be released because a leftist professor David Garrow had stumbled upon its’ existence when he was research his trilogy on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, (The FBI and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. volume).
The Bureau decided to beat Garrow to the publishing punch and John’s book, “Operation SOLO: The FBI’s Man in the Kremlin”, was published in 1996 by Regnery Publishing, Inc. Wash. D.C.
And the rest is history.
If I told you who the rest of our luncheon group was, I’d have to kill you. Actually I have over the years in my comments and I’m finding more of that group’s members in my old files. Half of our WW2 Navy commanders were there including Adm. Dan Galley (captured the German Sub 505), OSS (Ed Hunter “Brainwashing in Red China”), CIA, FBI, congressional internal security investigators, WW2 pilots, a National Chinese general and aide to Gen. Lansdale in Vietnam (Bernie Yoh, “SACO”), professors (Dobriansky, Rice, Moser, Michaels, etc.), a leader of the Free Polish Army during WW2, Stefan Korbonski, RCAF - Dave Martin, Jim Kerns, 5th Special Forces/VN, Major Nick Rowe (SF, POW, “5 Years to Freedom”, Amb. Elbridge “Durbie” Durbrow, etc. and that was just at my table.
You should have seen who was at the desert table!
A luncheon a month with the makers of history. For a graduate student it was heaven in the flesh.
I have history books from the 50’s for the war between the states, and today’s history books , and they are totally different. Really sad that the left feels they have to change history.
It’s the bran in the food that makes them bran dead.
Barbara Boxer, former Senator from California.
ZZZZing!!
rino horn
“Internment:
The US had comprimised both JN-25 and Magic —they were reading Japanese signals.”
Bingo! Thanks for bringing this up. I’ve posted before about MAGIC, and it seems few are aware of the Intercepts. The MAGIC intercepts indicated an active effort by the Japanese Consulates to recruit both Japanese Nationals and Japanese-Americans I to spy and conduct espionage and it appears they were successful.
https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Intelligence-Evacuation-Japanese-Residents/dp/0960273611
This woman is not a conservative. Sounds like she ran as a Republican to get around an incumbent Democrat. Her 2012 debate sounds like she's a Democrat.
it’s called pakalolo ...
What is called that?
That would be Maam Boxer.
RINO scum shocked that no one else approved of her participation in a partisan democrat rally.
Traitor slime.
OTOH, one of the German invasions in this article did involve 8 naturalized US citizens.
And don’t forget the Bataan Death March and the POWs who were tortured, killed, and even eaten by their Japanese captors.
I wasn’t around at the time, but I would assume the internment seemed like a reasonable action at the time, considering that the continued existence of the US was absolutely at stake.
Imagine the blowback if any of those who were interned had actually turned out to be future saboteurs whose actions could have killed large numbers of Americans, or did grave damage to our war effort.
Would the same sort of excuses that are now being used to excuse the barbarity of Muslim terrorists worked in the 1940s? I doubt it.
And would the Japanese have hesitated to use the A-bomb on US cities if, by chance, they had gotten it first? I doubt it.
All this former “Republican” cares about is her own political future in a deep blue state.
Beth is hapa
Ed
So she’s leaving the GOP because Trump didn’t condemn FDR for Japanese internment camps?
Sayonara, Felicia
Hmmm - this meme sounds familiar for some reason. I wonder why?
I believe I am right when I say Hawaii has the biggest welfare participation rate in the US. Virtually all native born Hawaiians draw some sort of assistance!!!
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