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To: PAR35

You’re right about Wake, it did fall when no support was forthcoming, and after a strong effort on the part of Marines and civilian contractors to retain control.

I chose not to make the commentary about dugout Doug but you are absolutely correct. He assured FDR that he and his forces were alert and ready when he was finally located and told about Pearl Harbor. He and his forces were caught by surprise with his aircraft and other resources on the ground and clustered for easy destruction. He was a shameless and shameful self-promoter who was much worse than McClelland during the Civil War. His decisions were responsible for a number of fiascos and men needlessly lost in engagements like Peleliu and the events leading up to Bataan as well as his approach to making a filmed landing and invasion where he did in the Philippines. FDR should have left him to the Japanese at Corrigedor and found a more competent general.


16 posted on 12/12/2011 12:58:46 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: RJS1950

I still think he should have been canned after his dispersement of the Bonus Army. It would have save the U.S. a lot of military fiascos.


19 posted on 12/13/2011 4:36:47 AM PST by CougarGA7 ("History is politics projected into the past" - Michael Pokrovski)
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