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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Ocean Beach surf pics
I’ve been seriously distracted lately… and here I am getting distracted by some of the action at Ocean Beach, courtesy of Bruce Topp at norcalsurfphotos.com
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The White Countess, my favorite Shanghai movie
Thousands of white Russian refugees flooded Shanghai after the communists won the Russian civil war. Shorn from the cream of the Russian aristocracy, most arrived in Shanghai destitute, many having never done a day’s work in their lives. The able … Continue reading
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China’s Wings book jacket
This in from Bantam yesterday. (With thanks to photographer Stephen Alvarez for use of the pic he took of me in Iran last summer. His gobsmacking website is well worth perusing. And thanks also to my editor, Tracy Devine — … Continue reading
What bestselling author James Hornfischer has to say about China’s Wings…
James Hornfischer, bestselling author of Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, Ship of Ghosts, and Neptune’s Inferno recently gave this very generous review of China’s Wings: “Too many people think the war in the Pacific began with Japan’s sudden … Continue reading
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An excellent CBI site
Here’s an excellent website devoted to the history of the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II (The CBI). It showcases an excellent collection of pamphlets, articles, circulars, documents, letters, stories, and photographs devoted to “remembering the forgotten theater of World … Continue reading
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America’s worst foreign policy blunder of all time
In my opinion, the legislated neutrality acts of the 1930s are the worst foreign policy blunders in U.S. history — they prevented America from banding together with other nations (Britain, France, Spain, Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, China, etc.) and taking a … Continue reading
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Quite simply, they thought we’d crumble
So, in yesterday’s post about the Pearl Harbor attack, I asked why the Japanese might have built a war plan based on dealing the United States such a crushing blow that it would fold in the face of Japan’s united … Continue reading
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Pearl Harbor, a colossal blunder?
December 7 just passed, and it always sets me to thinking… I ponder the day and the terrible war it set in motion. My mind’s eye sees the Japanese strike force sweeping over the North Shore of Oahu unleashing death … Continue reading
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The lone flush toilet in Chungking
Ernie Allison “checked out” Moon Chin in June, 1936, qualifying him as an airline captain competent to command his own plane. It was a big promotion, and much responsibility for a twenty-three year old. Moon Chin’s salary doubled, and Moon’s … Continue reading
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Moon Chin’s favorite airplane-the Douglas Dolphin
This continues from the end of the CNAC and the Long March post… The importance of the Kweichow/Kunming line faded after the Communist escape, and Chief Pilot Ernie Allison returned Moon Chin to Shanghai to fly the Douglas Dolphin on … Continue reading
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