[Milsurplus] OSS CBI

[Hue Miller]

> Hue, that story about dropping into PW camps
> is all hog-wash.  Always has been.
> In Burma and those countries the Brits accepted
> the surrended from the Senior Japanese, then
> let, (or ordered), the Japs to remain in control
> of the policing etc becuase they had the infrastructure,
> and the Brits didn't.  About the first American feet
> on the Japanese island near Tokyo, more later.
> 73  Clete

"Light rain pelted Tech Sergeant Nestor Jacot in the face as he tapped out a
coded message on the portable high frequency radio in Peking. Beside him
Staff Sergeant Dick Hamada vigorously turned the hand cranks on the power
generator. Around these two Americans stood a ring of Japanese gendarmes
watching the operation stoically.
'We're getting thru to Hsian now,' Jacot  said.....
'The message Jacot then sent to OSS HQ was indeed good news and made
headlines around the world that day:
FOUR DOOLITTLE FLIERS LOCATED IN MILITARY PRISON PEKING. NAMES
ARE.....'"

>From "Four Came Home" by Carroll Clines, 1981, 1995. Copiously illustrated
with photos.
I dunno. Seems pretty legit to me. -Hue