tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post578755795199795667..comments2024-02-28T20:56:23.768-06:00Comments on Sipsey Street Irregulars: "Only those who are willing to die are fit to live." -- Remembering Captain Joe Barker on Memorial Day.Dutchman6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09935420042995679958noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-37092725062144714772009-05-27T19:26:18.980-05:002009-05-27T19:26:18.980-05:00Yes, Uncle Lar, he was treated very shabbily. He ...Yes, Uncle Lar, he was treated very shabbily. He never was promoted to general rank, yet he so richly deserved it. <br /><br />As for promoting himself, he certainly did, but only because the Filipinos would more readily join his guerilla forces for a general than they would for a Colonel. He was interested in getting the job done.<br /><br />While he tied up thousands and thousands of Japanese troops trying to locate and destroy his forces, MacArthur and Willoughby(?) assured the president there were no viable guerilla forces in The Phillipines and further that none such were even possible.<br /><br />Ergo, when we retook The Phillipines Fertig and his forces were a serious embarrassment to the thespian MacArthur, who had stated unequivocally that those forces didn't exist. <br /><br />oh, the original post on Fertig was me.straightarrownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-61054041279258816322009-05-26T15:42:04.913-05:002009-05-26T15:42:04.913-05:00Forgot. Churchill's bust.
http://www.pownetwork...Forgot. Churchill's bust.<br /><br /><br />http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies1055.htm<br />"Churchill, Ward Leroy 02/2005 Colorado http://nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200503240801.asp<br /><br />March 24, 2005, 8:01 a.m.<br />The Seven Faces of “Dr.” Churchill<br />Academia’s everyman.<br /><br />Does Ward Churchill even exist?<br />..... Churchill has spoken of the firsthand trauma of battle service as a combat veteran, both as a paratrooper and as a sniper — among the most hazardous of corps in the United States military. Once again, there is no such evidence that he served in any capacity other than what his official duties in a motor pool and as a projectionist entailed.<br /><br />Embarrassed officials claim Churchill was sought after by other universities — so they had to reel in this trophy catch before he got away — but no one can find any proof other than Churchill’s own mendacious claims.<br /><br />No one knows what to make of his various arrests, boasts of bomb-making, trip to Libya, angry and traumatized ex-wives, braggadocio about petty vandalism, tales of phone threats, and the variety of other sordid stories that surround this fabricated man. Churchill’s presence on campus is like the weaving driver who is pulled over by the state police, who quickly find no license, registration, or insurance, but plenty of warrants — and thus wonder how many other paroled miscreants they’ve missed out there, one accident away from being a public-relations nightmare.<br /><br />So, again, does this Ward Churchill even exist?<br /><br />Of course not: His faces are made up of whole cloth.....<br /> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1361569/posts<br /><br />New Churchill Fraud Uncovered (Evidence suggests he appropriated another veteran's war experience)<br />Pirate Ballerina ^ | March 11th, 2005 | jwpaine<br /><br />Posted on 03/12/2005 12:09:09 PM PST by ajolympian2004<br /><br />New Churchill Fraud Uncovered<br />Recently Found Evidence Suggests Ward Churchill Appropriated Another Veteran's Vietnam Experience<br /><br />PirateBallerina is in possession of evidence that shows Ward Churchill appropriated the military experience of someone else and claimed it as his own. During a 1993 interview, Churchill gave supposed recollections of his actions and thoughts from his time in Vietnam that our evidence shows were in fact stolen from a quote by an anonymous soldier in an essay published a year earlier by a different author......<br />DoD shows an E4 CHURCHILL, WARD L. <br /> MOS: 64B which was Heavy Vehicle Driver.<br /><br />574th Trans Co while at Ft Riley and then the only unit he was in in Nam was 670th Trans Co, as a Hvy Trk Dvr"Brock Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-69770680704275979492009-05-26T15:36:39.598-05:002009-05-26T15:36:39.598-05:00Wonderful, courageous story. Thanks.Wonderful, courageous story. Thanks.Brock Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-16969442172433122332009-05-26T13:05:59.537-05:002009-05-26T13:05:59.537-05:00The fucking IJA's favorite tactic was to behead pe...The fucking IJA's favorite tactic was to behead people. Why? Because they are DEATHLY AFRAID of it themselves. I mean DEATHLY AFRAID.<br /><br />They believed that once somebody is beheaded, their soul would lie in pieces forever and would never rest. That is why they prefer seppuku when they commit ritual suicide.<br /><br />During the War in Northeast China, there were several times when my Grand Uncle's 8th Route Army scouts captured high ranking Japanese officers and brought them back to headquarters for questioning about the enemy's next moves. They were almost too easy to break down. All we had to do was lay the blades of our gigantic broadswords on their necks and they would give up all the information they knew. They gave us tactical information about airfields and hidden aircraft. They gave us entire battle plans, complete with coordinates and lists of commanding officers. If we asked them to denounce the Japanese Emperor and insult him using the filthiest words, they would have done it. Thats how terrified they were at the prospect of their own beheading.<br /><br />Chinese troops didn't carry great broadswords, called DA DAO, for no reason. First, weapons were scarce and these swords were the only weapons we had in large quantities. Guns and ammo had to be captured from the Japanese. Secondly, most of us KNEW how to use these swords with the most vicious skill. First designed during the Zhou Dynasty, the massive 5 pound blade was designed to slice through heavy Hun and Mongol cavalry armor like a hot knife through butter. It was a peasant warrior's weapon. Countless dynasties from the eras of the Qin and Han to the Song, Tang and Qing were overthrown and new dynasties founded by soldiers wielding this weapon. In 1542 the Lord Hideyoshi of Japan received a nasty surprise when his invasion force of elite samurai were sliced to mincemeat by the Imperial Ming Army.<br /><br />In other words, the DA DAO was only built for one single purpose: to cut and hack with the most brutal precision. And it lived up to it's reputation. During the War, Japanese units would rather fight Chinese troops armed with rifles and guns rather than go up against troops carrying armed with broadswords. They were so terrified of beheading that most troops would rather commit seppuku with their katanas than face capture if a battle is losing for them, since they were terrified that the Chinese would behead them.<br /><br />That is why these fuckers loved to behead prisoners and innocent civilians, most of the time for fun. They were so terrified of it being done to them, they became eager to do it to others. If there was one thing that they were absolutely terrified of in China, it was probably the 29th Army. The 29th Army fought primarily with the DA DAO, and during the Battle of Manchukuo (Dongjiakuo) in 1931, over 10,000 Japanese Kwantung Army soldiers were slaughtered in 3 hours of fighting. The mountainside was said by a Chinese newspaper to have been "covered with blood and severed heads of enemy troops." The Japanese were so eager to behead people, hun? At Dongjiakuo, we gave them a taste of their own medicine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-65921258791038347442009-05-26T09:08:09.219-05:002009-05-26T09:08:09.219-05:00Lest we forgetLest we forgetAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-87998297696460802902009-05-26T09:01:18.559-05:002009-05-26T09:01:18.559-05:00Fertig was a brave and honorable man shabbily trea...Fertig was a brave and honorable man shabbily treated by his own government due primarily to that effing prima donna MacArthur. True, Fertig did promote himself to General to lend authority to his efforts, but by the end of the war he commanded far more men than usually justifies a general officer. He spent the war in the bush while MacArthur played politics in Australia.<br />For those who find history books a bit dry I highly recommend WEB Griffin's Marine Corp series for a fictionalized accounting of our efforts and mistakes during the period from pre WWII through Korea in the Pacific theater. Ten books now in the series and if I recall two deal at some length with the Phillipine resistance under Fertig.Uncle Larnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-83379525985872335592009-05-26T04:13:25.063-05:002009-05-26T04:13:25.063-05:00I shall never find it in me to forgive the then pr...I shall never find it in me to forgive the then prevalent Japanese culture for its treatment of captured American soldiers and civilians during the course of World War II. But then again with the brave sacrifice of men such as Joe Barker, a couple of nukes, and an unconditional surrender we did manage to utterly destroy that culture, or at least those aspects of it responsible for such atrocities.Uncle Larnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-14005845326292663232009-05-26T03:02:02.825-05:002009-05-26T03:02:02.825-05:00Although he fared better than Barker, if you are i...Although he fared better than Barker, if you are interested in this history, you could do worse than to study the case of Col. Wendell J. Fertig and his guerilla efforts and obstruction of Japanese plans in the Phillipines.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com