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To: PAR35

Quezon wasn’t the only problem over there. We will get into more detail next year but the way the troops were deployed made any defense of the island impossible anyway. When we actually start covering it, you will see my disdain for Douglas MacArthur.


12 posted on 01/01/2010 12:16:34 PM PST by CougarGA7 (Happy New Year)
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To: CougarGA7

Kimmel & Short had an excuse. McArthur didn’t. But they became scapegoats, and he became a hero for essentially the same actions.


13 posted on 01/01/2010 12:32:22 PM PST by PAR35
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