Enfield-Rifles.com Homepage
Forum Home Forum Home > Off Topic > Military Talk
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Hong Kong
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Hong Kong

 Post Reply Post Reply Page  123>
Author
Message
Honkytonk View Drop Down
Senior Member
Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 30 2017
Location: Brandon Mb
Status: Offline
Points: 4770
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Honkytonk Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: Hong Kong
    Posted: January 18 2018 at 6:44am
I worked with a buddy who retired about two years before me. He's currently about 70 yrs old. His dad, now deceased, was in the military and stationed in Hong Kong at the beginning of war. He was lucky(?) And spent the rest of the war in a Japanese POW camp. I asked buddy if he ever talked about his experiences. Buddy pondered for a minute, then said no, but that his dad didn't like rice.
Back to Top
hoadie View Drop Down
Moderator Group
Moderator Group
Avatar

Joined: March 16 2006
Location: Niagara/Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 9003
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote hoadie Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2018 at 8:15am
Must've been in the Winnipeg rifles
Loose wimmen tightened here
Back to Top
paddyofurniture View Drop Down
Senior Member
Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 26 2011
Location: NC
Status: Online
Points: 5255
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote paddyofurniture Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2018 at 8:48am
God Bless them all.

Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.
Back to Top
Honkytonk View Drop Down
Senior Member
Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 30 2017
Location: Brandon Mb
Status: Offline
Points: 4770
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Honkytonk Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2018 at 12:35pm
Amen to that! Little training, no support... fought like veterans! While the outcome was inevitable, I believe we may have bloodied their nose a bit!
Back to Top
paddyofurniture View Drop Down
Senior Member
Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 26 2011
Location: NC
Status: Online
Points: 5255
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote paddyofurniture Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2018 at 1:02pm
Originally posted by Honkytonk Honkytonk wrote:

Amen to that! Little training, no support... fought like veterans! While the outcome was inevitable, I believe we may have bloodied their nose a bit!


I think they kicked them in the shorts and if they had support they would have kicked them all way back to Japan.

My Father has a American Born Canadian and had no love for the Japs. He know what happen and was out to return actions.
Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.
Back to Top
hoadie View Drop Down
Moderator Group
Moderator Group
Avatar

Joined: March 16 2006
Location: Niagara/Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 9003
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote hoadie Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2018 at 2:22pm
There was a few stories about that episode. Turns out that Churchill & the Cdn PM knew they would be sacrificed. (Not very cricket there!)
There was a VC or two issued - obviously posthumously.
And a dog..the mascot was also picking up Japaneese grenades & returning them..then skedaddling, until one went off in his mouth before he could drop it.
Loose wimmen tightened here
Back to Top
paddyofurniture View Drop Down
Senior Member
Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 26 2011
Location: NC
Status: Online
Points: 5255
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote paddyofurniture Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2018 at 2:33pm
Governments killing their good people.

Big governments sucks.

Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.
Back to Top
hoadie View Drop Down
Moderator Group
Moderator Group
Avatar

Joined: March 16 2006
Location: Niagara/Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 9003
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote hoadie Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2018 at 3:19pm
..its all about political appearance.
Like Pearl Harbour..U.S. needed an "incident" to get them into the 2nd twirl at war. To do it - even tho it would have been the "right thing" to do - without the American population onside would have been political suicide. So, sacrifice the lads @ Pearl, & everyone is "onside".
Twas the same with Hong Kong. That same scenario has been repeated so many times in so many places. The names change..but not the results.
Loose wimmen tightened here
Back to Top
paddyofurniture View Drop Down
Senior Member
Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 26 2011
Location: NC
Status: Online
Points: 5255
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote paddyofurniture Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2018 at 3:21pm
Sad but true.
Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.
Back to Top
Honkytonk View Drop Down
Senior Member
Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 30 2017
Location: Brandon Mb
Status: Offline
Points: 4770
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Honkytonk Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2018 at 3:22pm
In my humble opinion, I truly believe times were different then. Two world wars in 30 years? I can't imagine the weight of those decisions to sacrifice brave soldiers for the final end result didn't haunt the leaders of the free world to their graves. Dieppe, Hong Kong, Pearl Harbour. Many, many more... I like to think these fallen heroes were the toughest SOB's their countries had to offer at the time...
Back to Top
hoadie View Drop Down
Moderator Group
Moderator Group
Avatar

Joined: March 16 2006
Location: Niagara/Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 9003
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote hoadie Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2018 at 6:15pm
Well - we now know that Dieppe wasn't the "failure" that it has always been considered. The Germans knew they were coming..it was planned that way. But - unknown to the world til recent, there was a British commando team that was tasked to enter the German naval HQ there to obtain an enigma machine.(The hotel still stands there.)Meanwhile, just 200 yds off the coast was a British destroyer with a man waiting to take delivery of it(Intrepid). The machine wasn't there, so they withdrew & no-one on our side was any the wiser.
Loose wimmen tightened here
Back to Top
hoadie View Drop Down
Moderator Group
Moderator Group
Avatar

Joined: March 16 2006
Location: Niagara/Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 9003
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote hoadie Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2018 at 6:17pm
BTW: Not many realize that approx. 200 American Marines joined in on that "raid"
Loose wimmen tightened here
Back to Top
Honkytonk View Drop Down
Senior Member
Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 30 2017
Location: Brandon Mb
Status: Offline
Points: 4770
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Honkytonk Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2018 at 6:55pm
I watched a show on the Dieppe raid by Canadian military historian David O'Keefe. It is very well researched, and informs the public after so many years the intent of the raid. Very informative and makes me proud to be Canadian!
Back to Top
A square 10 View Drop Down
Special Member
Special Member
Avatar
Donating Member

Joined: December 12 2006
Location: MN , USA
Status: Offline
Points: 14452
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote A square 10 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2018 at 7:31pm
the pacific was not wellsupported in the beginning because of the more crucial/strategic atlantic front , i think the plan was in motion from the beginning but the logistics were beyond some capabilities at the time so development had to occur , 

the sacrifices of those in the pacific are unforgivable but i think unavoidable at that time with the current technology and capabilities , we more than made up in the end but the personal losses and suffering we have to acknowledge , its why i remember - i was raised with it , i almost never heard of the european war growing up , except in school , now even that is lost , 
Back to Top
hoadie View Drop Down
Moderator Group
Moderator Group
Avatar

Joined: March 16 2006
Location: Niagara/Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 9003
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote hoadie Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2018 at 3:25am
Prior to America's entry into the 2nd whirl at war, it was decided that a "holding action" in the Pacific would be taken, until the European theatre could be stabilized. (Remember-Britain was at her rope's end). Once that had been realized, America came down the Pacific road with everything she had...glad I wasn`t there.
Loose wimmen tightened here
Back to Top
A square 10 View Drop Down
Special Member
Special Member
Avatar
Donating Member

Joined: December 12 2006
Location: MN , USA
Status: Offline
Points: 14452
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote A square 10 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2018 at 7:36pm
yes , that was how i was educated as well , i agree with the plan as i have the vission of hind site but i think those on corrigador might have asked for a little more , there were a lot of casualties on the batan march and the philipenes sufferd , austrailia was in their sights , 
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  123>
  Share Topic   

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down

Forum Software by Web Wiz Forums® version 12.04
Copyright ©2001-2021 Web Wiz Ltd.