See Also GyG webpage...
http://www.network54.com/Forum/220604/message/1149198367/Re+Evans+Carlson+and+Joe+McCarthy.. ..
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Ret BGen Evans F. Carlson USMCR died in 1947, after running for public office in California on the Communist Party ticket.
I have seen brief references before regarding Joe McCarthy having attacked Col Carlson, but I never have seen this together with a proper reference as to a verifiable source. (Strange that it does not mention that Carlson died several years prior--1947, as I recall--to the hearings; of course, McCarthy may have not been aware of Carlson's death, etc.)
I have searched for such a reference re this McCarthy/Carlson incident many times to no avail. In lieu of such a hard reference and for the time being, I will use this webpage source as a temporary reference and post this info to Gunny G's Globe and Anchor Sites & Forums.
Semper Fidelis
Dick Gaines
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http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5541
Unfortunately, the above link is no longer correct--that's the way it goes on the Internet, here today-gone tomorrow!
March, 2007
-RWG
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Ref
American Thinker article June 1, 2006
excerpt:
"Evans Carlson was the kind of eccentric that abounds in U.S. military history. In the late 1930s, he was serving with the Marines in Tientsin, China, when he took the opportunity to visit Mao and his 8th Route Army at Yenan. Carlson was so overwhelmed by the experience—the comradeship, the ideology, the excitement of being part of a cause – that he became for all practical purposes a convinced Maoist.
Which didn't prevent him from remaining a Marine. Taking some of the lessons he'd learned (including the Maoist slogan " gung ho" – "work together"), Carlson applied them to Marine Corps tactics and organization. At the outbreak of World War II he convinced his superiors to allow him to form a pair of Raider battalions, units that based their tactics in large part on Mao's theory of guerilla warfare. After a half-successful raid on the Japanese-held island of Makin, Carlson led a dramatic month-long raid behind enemy lines on Guadalcanal, clearly demonstrating the potential of the raider concept. Though the Raider battalions never quite lived up to Carlson's billing, they provided valuable service and acted as a basis for postwar Marine practice in units such as Force Recon.
Carlson remained in the Marine Corps, and in the early 50s, came to the attention of one particular ex-Marine, Sen. Joe McCarthy. Always eager to produce an actual communist to back up his rhetoric (most active communists had already been bagged by the time he appeared), McCarthy planned to drag Carlson before his committee and expose him as a follower of the evil Mao tse-Tung, whose troops were even then fighting UN forces in Korea.
At least, that was what he planned until a high-ranking Marine officer stalked into his congressional office and explained to the senator that once a Marine, always a Marine, and that Marines, no matter what the circumstances, never betray their brothers in arms."
For further information on Col Carlson, and "Carlson's Raiders," etc., please see Gunny G's Sites & Forums at...
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/dickg/sites.html
NOTE:
The above information is also posted to the following website; however, I notice that the same link there back to American Thinker is also corrupted.
http://joegringo.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_archive.html
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