History Forum / War History / World War II / August 2008

Google Yahoo and so on does not score.
Does anybody know about Canarsie, I am not shure
whether it was his real name or code name.
He was an officer for both the Wehrmacht and the US.

Please have a look at the soldier at
http://www.dvrbs.com/monuments/g-city/GloucesterWW2-JosephAScheurich.htm
What is the shoulder patch that is so clearly visible on his left shoulder?

Assuming two things, that the USA had managed to find out the Japanese
plans for attacking PH, *and* that Roosevelt is *not* the re-
incarnation of Machiavelli, what would be the appropriate way for the
USA to respond in order to inflict maximum losses on the Japanese?

I am editing the transcription of the December 1944 Journal of 7th Armored
Division's Division Trains, which has this entry:
TO: CO Tns:      50 trucks from Master on way to your now.   G-4   1245
What headquarters had the code name "Master"?

Most "what ifs" of WWII related to possible Axis victory e.g.
*    What if Germany took Moscow or Stalingrad...or Cairo.
*    What if Germany had the advanced U-Boats earlier and stopped trans-
Atlantic shipments.

There are many books on the Battle of Leyte Gulf.  I am looking for one that
discusses the collection and processing of intelligence prior to the battle.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Bob

During WW II the National Geographic magazine published many articles
relating to the situation in war torn countries as well as the US
armed forces.  One issue had an excellent article about the
Quartermaster Depot.  This can be a resource for those studying the

I heard a radio interview this morning of presidential historial
Michael Beschloss in which he stated that in 1944 the FBI was
concerned that a Wendell Wilkie (Republican presidential nominee)
cabinet might include German sympathyzers (he said Nazi agents) who

US vehicles after being assembled in Liverpool by local companies awaiting
delivery to US forces.
http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4412&d=1192044569
Shipping them over complete doesn't make sense in the space they take up on

Hirabayashi: The Biggest Lie of the Greatest Generation
Eric L. Muller
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - School of Law
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1233682

Why was Deputy Hess in prison for more than forty years, long after
seemingly worse nazis were released after relatively few years?
  How do you strangle yourself without hanging??

The Phila Inqr had an article quoting a diary of Hideki Tojo published
for the first time by the National Archives of Japan.
After the atomic weapons were deployed, Tojo criticized his colleagues
of being scared of enemy trheats and easily throwing their hands up.

The attack was a complete surprise to him. I remember reading that at
the time despite his spoken view, he was not pleased about it.
What were his immediate views on the attack?

Any record of a Japanese soldier approaching the west to defect with
information?  Offer a Zero?  Anything?
Craig

It sounds apologist as an American, but there is no doubt in my mind
that the Atomic bombs saved Japanese, to say nothing of American
lives. The conventional bombings killed far more Japanese than the
atomic bombs but they were, well, conventional. It took something