Posted on 11/11/2011 5:29:28 AM PST by Dysart
Bump
Wouldn't surprise me. A close friend of the family (now deceased) was former SAS. Only way I found out was his wife let it slip.
When I said, "REALLY! You were?!!!", he told me that she was mistaken. Yeah right. After being married for 40-odd years to him I doubt that there's much she'd be mistaken about.
He was a serious character, too. Lots of good (but vague) stories, some of which might have a grain of truth somewhere within them. He got shot by an Arab Legionnaire while on camelback in the Suez, was in Korea and a few other garden spots as well. Said that the Chinese were the only military that scared him; they'd throw a million men at a hill and if one was left standing at the top when they were done, they called it a victory.
A local bit from the newspaper about the Bushmasters. Not much detail, but lots of names.
http://www.yumasun.com/news/charles-36826-frank-cano.html
The “Bushmasters” was the name given to the members of the 158th Regimental Combat Team, which served in New Guinea and the Philippines against Japanese forces during World War II.
Read more: http://www.yumasun.com/news/charles-36826-frank-cano.html#ixzz1dQ7hchKi
Clive Cussler writes barnburners of books in the same vein as Hatt Helm, and one of his main characters is Joe Zavala.
Interesting coincidence, especially as Cussler writes people that he knows personally (including himself) into a lot of his work. Corny? Yep. Hokey? Also yep. But, so are his paperbacks. And, he blows the proceeds on collecting classic cars taking his friends out diving for lost shipwrecks. I think that he'd be a fun guy to sit down and drink a beer or two with.
No idea how common a name Jow Zavala is, I've never heard it before today (other than in Cussler's books).
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