Posted on 11/05/2013 12:16:44 PM PST by naturalman1975
Thanks for sharing this.
American unions did their fair share of crap during the war, as well.
Wow! That story makes me wonder what American unions did to subvert our country during the war.
In his autobiographical book “Goodbye Darkness” William Manchester wrote that in August 1942 at Guadalcanal there were
some merchant marine ships carrying cargo for the Marines. The ships with union crew members bugged out and did not off load supplies for the Marines. the only food the marines had was rice captured from the Japanese. Manchester blamed the unions.
How about the Longshoremen under the leadership of Harry Bridges who struck the docks on the West Coast, delaying shipments of arms and munitions to our troops in the Pacific. Bridges was a self-declared Communist.
I knew a Marine Captain who participated in several invasions. He told me that he and his men went into battle with just one round apiece. One round!
He told me that after the war he had a good mind to kill Harry Bridges. But as he was a good Christian, I think that was a momentary, idle threat.
Another problem I read about years ago was that quite a few service men were pro-Nazi. Instead of arresting them, the US Army put them in charge of security at US POW Camps.
After several escapes the problem was found to be in the political orientation of the guards, who looked the other way, and they were removed from duty.
Unions are Marxist in nature.
The truth is that the whole US Navy, supply ships and all men of war left, deserting the Marines and taking all their supplies.
Union sailors had nothing to do with it
” Shockingly, those who have never read the history of Guadalcanal will discover that with only a small portion of supplies and equipment ashore, the Navy, fearing Japanese bombardment and air attacks, abandoned the Marines and sailed away with much of the division’s food, ammunition, equipment and other supplies.” - See more at: http://www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck/bookreview/guadalcanal-us-marines-world-war-ii-pictorial-tribute#sthash.aZdw5QNM.dpuf
Should have sent them to the Pacific theatre.
I had a number of relatives that came to the USA from Germany, France and Poland during the late 30s. They were immediately drafted at the start of the war — being native speakers, but Jewish -— because they were deemed anti-Nazi.
In fact, they have been visited by what-is-now selective service prior to Pearl Harbor, to make sure they were ready to go whent the time came.
Pretty logical, actually.
At least on the East Coast the US Government enlisted the Mafia to help keep the ports open.
They did the same thing in the U.S. They were either Communist or just as likely part of the Mafia.
The government eventually was forced to make a deal with them. We basically looked the other way on their crimes and they did the work.
Some of the communist unions sought to sabotage the war against Japan, so more effort would be be committed against the Nazis, who were at war with the Soviet Union.
We (the US) were never at war with the Nazis before the Nazis were at war with the Soviets.
The Soviets finally joined the war against Japan after Hiroshima bombing.
On a related note, one historian states that although the Soviets were as culpable as the Germans re the invasion of Poland, British politicians knew that any reprisals against the USSR were impossible. The Commie sympathizer unions would have shut Britain down.
Yeah, one of the coolest rebuttals on a military topic I’ve ever seen went like this:
“What can the Marines really do without the Navy?”
“Win on Guadalcanal.”
The US Government refused to put guards on all overpasses and bridges, except for the major ones.
I think Manchester, who was there, may have had more real information than we do now. Many facts about WWII were distorted then as well as revised now. All one has to do is look at the bombing of Hiroshima to see the contrast.
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