Posted on 03/08/2014 9:14:15 PM PST by virgil283
Ahhhh....OK, now I’m laughing, because I was sitting here thinking “That episode does not happen in this book....this guy is confusing two different books.”
Not too surprisingly....I guess *I’m* the one who is confused :-)
Either you have a very refined sense of humor or you are so
daft that you believe the outrageous Japanese propaganda
that the Filipino gardeners and hospital nurses laughed at
in 1943. Which, may I ask, is it?
And furthermore, *I came through and I shall return.*
Well, then, ha-ha- ha!
BTW, the “.....I shall return” comment made by General MacArthur
was among the things his critics cite as evidence that he was less
than a heroic American figure. Some of those military folks who
became prisoners of the Japanese after the invasion of Dec 41 and
1942 hated MacArthur because he “bugged out” of the Philippines
when the going got rugged. I point out that MacArthur was the
only military figure who argued for an earlier return to the PIs to,
in part, rescue the American POWs. Had the US Navy gotten
their way the PIs would have been bypassed and there would
have been no US POWs left alive to rescue.
In the Great War the biplane jocks shot at each other with pistols a number of times so there could have been some shootdowns then.
Many years back I read an account of a Jap fighter found bellied onto a beach in the Solomons with a single 30-06 round through the cockpit that hit the pilot coming; apparently from an invidual rifleman.
Baggett’s foe was more likely an Army pilot flying an Oscar I would guess.
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