This Day in History

[headquarters]

Opinions vary of this man - he did abandon his troops after the PI was overrun in 1942. He also advocated using nuclear weapons in Korea in 1951.

All in all - I think he had good taste in sunglasses

[HorseSoldier]

Off topic, but this seems odd --

The Canadian Army Pacific Force was raised in 1945 as a field force intended to participate in the last phase of The War Against Japan, an anticipated Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands in the last phase of the Second World War. The CAPF was based on an infantry division structure, however, to increase operability with the Americans, certain units bore US organizational structures and names. As well, Canadian units went into training with US weapons to ease logistical concerns.

The commonality of equipment makes sense. I have to wonder at the politics that might have gone into the Canadian military adopting US terminology for the division involved. I've read that during the early Cold War there was tension between Francophone elements who favored emulating the US military format and Anglophone elements who liked the British traditions. An early example of that?

[rcaf_777]

Would be that much of an issues many americans prior to 1941 and served the Canadian Military and many Canadian served with the 1st Speical Service Force durring the War