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1. Hank May 3, 2025 at 10:01 am

   I enjoyed this youtube video.

   Around 1967 while visiting my maternal grandfather just prior to going on a fishing trip to the Canadian side of the “Thousand Islands Lake area”
   I scanned his bookshelf for a book to take along in chance of rain, and chose
   “American Guerrilla in the Philippines”
   which turned out to be “unforgettable.”

   Once having read this book you may want to read about then-Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1930s stint in the Philippines doing all the day to day “grunt” organizational work & planning that his boss Douglas MacArthur should have been doing, instead of ordering Eisenhower to attend to the fiscal up keeping of McArthur’s first Philippine mistress, or similarly to the Philippine second mistress that so annoyed Eisenhower that he resigned and returned to the USA to work for his older brother, a self made millionaire business owner.

   After Pearl Harbor
   read about how Eisenhower volunteered to reenlist
   (even though he was technically old enough to sit out military service again)
   and was told to show up for a one on one interview with General George Marshall,
   who told him to
   “isolate yourself and write for me a complete plan to defeat Japan in the Pacific.”
   When Eisenhower hand delivered this plan to Marshall, he waited.

   Finally Eisenhower was contacted with entirely confusing instructions:
   – you will be allowed to re-enlist, but not at your old rank,
   and with the further big but
   – you will be sent to Europe.

   Then you might want to read about the “Harrodsburg Sherman Tankers”
   who were rushed to the Philippines just prior to Pearl Harbor.

   Then you might want ponder whether the USA should have “Island Hopped” over the Philippine Islands entirely.

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