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To: donmeaker

According to that book, the Marines at the Peking barracks were so outnumbered and out gunned that they were forced to surrender. They ended up Japanese POW camps.


10 posted on 03/09/2013 4:15:28 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin

Japanese POW camps were not healthy places. Worse even than the Soviet or German ones.


21 posted on 03/09/2013 8:31:57 PM PST by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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