Subj : How far I've come...
To   : MRO
From : Moondog
Date : Mon Jan 30 2023 02:33 pm

  Re: How far I've come...
  By: MRO to Moondog on Sun Jan 29 2023 08:01 pm

 >   Re: How far I've come...
 >   By: Moondog to MRO on Sun Jan 29 2023 01:27 pm
 > 
 >  > My father used to work for Clark Equipment, and he recalled a tour went
 >  > through of Japanese tourists.  This was in the mid to late 60's and secur
 >  > was lax on what they took pictures of.  There were proprietary practices 
 >  > ho w they drilled and inlettted axles, and let them take pictures of the
 >  > process.
 >  >
 > 
 > that is so stupid that they allowed that.
 > 
 > 
 >  > There was guy they called Tex, who lied about his age to join the Marines
 >  > WWII.  The guy was 15 or 16 when he enlisted.  He was running a drill pre
 >  > and kept staring at one of the engineers/ tourists.  He walked up to the 
 >  > a nd asked him if his father served in the war, and if he survived.  The
 >  > Japanese guy said his father served, and survived.  Tex then says he
 >  > could've sworn he killed the guys father.  That sounded like something he
 >  > would say.
 >  > i heard stories of this guy getting pissed off at the engineers or
 >  > management, walked off the job and went to the bar to get drunk, then com
 >  > in the next day like nothing had happened.  I'm amazed they were so
 >  > tolerant.
 > 
 > the japanese were ruthless people who starved and tortured their captives.
 > There was no love for them.

Yeah, they were arogant to allow people outside the company to film anything.
 Anything the engineers saw they could easily reverse engineer.

Regarding troops, it was first assumed they born and raised in modern cities,
they shouldn't be that hard to fight.  Problem was they had a head start on
jungle fightiing for several years, and as stated the life of a prisoner
meant nothing.  Tex told me one time they got a batch of grenades where the
fuse was slower.  They would allow the same cook off time before throwing,
then the enemy would grab them and throw them back.  If they got lucky they
had enough time to toss them back again.

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