To: Eric in the Ozarks
Yes but Ike was privy to all information of the war everywhere in the world. You and your father were not. And Ike did talk often to MacArthur, and MacArthur did know a lot about Japan and what they were planning.
43 posted on
08/04/2005 12:26:31 AM PDT by
Radioactive
(I'm on the radio..so I'm radioactive)
To: Radioactive
Mac spent almost his entire life in the PI. Ike never made it to Japan. We got to know many of the Japanese involved in the plan to resist the invasion. A couple of them worked for my dad at JPA in Tokyo.
Our maid was a 9 year old in '45, forced to work 16 hours/day in a munitions factory. When Curtis LeMay fire bombed their plant, the machinery was salvaged and moved into caves where production continued until the day of the surrender. One of the "products" she made was a crude, one-shot zip gun pistol that was distributed to civilians specifically to kill American invaders, then pick up their weapons. Ask someone that's been there.
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