daniel zucker
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everythingMine is right only once a day. What am I doing wrong?
JR
everythingMine is right only once a day. What am I doing wrong?
JR
See pages 113-125 and 134-35Here's the source materials for Kakazu Ridge for those (hopefully) interested in going for a HASL:
Okinawa: The Last Battle - U.S. Army Center of Military History
history.army.mil
Well, there is something more behind this:About the smell linked to the food, I also read that in a book about the Burma campaign.
Presumably, Japanese could also detect British and Americans after their smell - olfactive sense is one of the most performant one.
I embraced a Socialist once. I can assure you it was a pleasant experience.hence why this younger generation embraces socialism and communism...
Love conquers all, it is said.I embraced a Socialist once. I can assure you it was a pleasant experience.
Smell worked in Viet Nam also.I think that there actually were more US Army troops fighting in the PTO than USMC.
SS>> There were.
About the smell linked to the food, I also read that in a book about the Burma campaign.
Presumably, Japanese could also detect British and Americans after their smell - olfactive sense is one of the most performant one.
So much for HIP!Smell worked in Viet Nam also.
It wouldn't work for me because I am a heavy smoker and my sense of smell is kaput.Smell worked in Viet Nam also.
That just made it easier for them to find you!It wouldn't work for me because I am a heavy smoker and my sense of smell is kaput.
Well, there is something more behind this:
I have read in many books that Japanese and Allied forces could detect their opponents by the way they smelled. The underlying fact seems to be that the body odor of Europeans (counting the Americans among them for being decendants) differs from those of people from the Far East.
ABCC11 - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Demographics
World map of the distribution of the A allele of the single nucleotide polymorphism rs17822931 in the ABCC11 gene. The proportion of A alleles in each population is represented by the white area in each circle.
The history of the migration of humans can be traced back using the ABCC11 gene alleles. The variation between ear wax and body odor in ethnicities around the world are specifically due to the ABCC11 gene alleles.[7] It is hypothesized that 40,000 years ago, an ancient Mongoloid tribe evolved the dry ear wax phenotype that followed a spread of the dry ear wax allele to other regions of Asia via migration of the ancient tribe.[10] The gene spread as a result of it being a beneficial adaption or through an evolutionary neutral mutation mechanism that went through genetic drift events.[10]
The frequency of alleles for dry ear wax and odorless sweat is most concentrated in East- and Northeast Asia, most notably Korea, China, Mongolia, and western Japan.[7] Conversely the frequency of the allele for wet ear wax and odored sweat are highest in African-American and sub-saharan populations.[7] A downward gradient of dry ear wax allele phenotypes can be drawn from northern China to southern Asia and an east–west gradient can also be drawn from eastern Siberia to western Europe.[7] The allele frequencies within ethnicities continued to be maintained because the ABCC11 gene is inherited as a haplotype, a group of genes or alleles that tend to be inherited as a single unit[7][11]
The amount of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in ear wax was found to be related to variation in ABCC11 genotype, which in turn is dependent on ethnic origin. In particular, the rs17822931 genotype, which is especially prevalent in East Asians, is correlated with lower VOC levels.[12]
So, while soldiers in the field subject to low hygiene will smell bad in any case, they will apparently still smell different due to their ethnic gene alleles in such a way that this was percieved by the soldiers in PTO of both sides. So facts rather than urban legend behind this.
von Marwitz
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning." ?Smell worked in Viet Nam also.
Asked this for you, of my Chinese-born wife and her parents (now visiting here). Westerners definitely have a noticeably different smell, not exactly corpse-like. There are different ethnic groups she definitely considers as smelling much worse, who will not be mentioned here.I heard that, due to our eating diary, we are said to smell like corpses by the Chinese.
Just a hearsay or urban legend?
Interesting comments. Lots of interesting things in this battle.So... been reading the green series on Kakazu in between work obligations. Two interesting CG elements stand out so far- the prevalence of defender prereg'ed hexes and Japanese sneaking out and creating pill boxes out of abandoned U.S. tanks. Yikes.
Totally believe that with a handful of new rule additions and some cleaning up, a CG would be a pretty accessible endeavor. Question would be: release as a HASL CG with the map and a few counters or release as an addition to a journal or annual?
Just don't use the wiki for your source material, no such unit as the 11/128th or 11/126th (1-128 or 1-126 or perhaps 2-128 & 2-126). Actually in WW-II U.S. military usage, only non-combat units were annotated with a slash (2/132nd Spt), combat units were to be noted by dashes (1-128th Inf). However, since the army was replete with civilians pressed into military service (i.e. the draft) the distinction was honored more in the breech than by design. Over the years this little tidbit has been lost or ignored and either presentation is generally accepted for both type of units except by those anayl retentive types (like myself).I think there could be a lot of non-Marine HASLs.. Buna-Gona possibly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Buna–Gona