"OSS Mission to Vietnam in 1945" Topic
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 ColCampbell  | 26 Nov 2025 7:20 a.m. PST |
Thought you might be interested in this write-up about the OSS mission to Vietnam in the waning months of 1945. link Jim |
| Texaswalker | 26 Nov 2025 8:43 a.m. PST |
The enemy of my enemy doesn't always turn out to be my friend. |
| IronDuke596 | 26 Nov 2025 9:31 a.m. PST |
Re "The enemy of my enemy doesn't always turn out to be my friend." True, but he could have had the U.S. not supported the French to hold onto their Vietnam colony. |
 John the OFM | 26 Nov 2025 6:17 p.m. PST |
I've often wondered why we supported the French. 🤷
I have read that Churchill was paranoid about losing Empires, so he helped the French initially.
So many "what ifs" there.
55,000 American lives lost. Millions of Vietnamese civilians. All to appease the French and Churchill. |
| Texaswalker | 26 Nov 2025 7:30 p.m. PST |
To both comments above, I'm not sure if it's true, maybe somwone can verify or challenge, but I remember reading that Ho came to the US government in the early 50s looking for support, but we rebuffed him in favor of the French. Might we have had a friend there, another Asian tiger, like Taiwan or Japan or South Korea? |
| Texaswalker | 26 Nov 2025 7:36 p.m. PST |
Okay, I checked after I posted, Japan is not officially a tiger, it's Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. |
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