Re: What IF: Japan Sent Paratroops to Pearl Harbor ?

dabrob wrote:
> On Aug 28, 2:50 pm, Stephen Graham wrote:
> 
>>>> Oh, well in that case, subtract 50% of them due to prompt defections
>>>> back to the United States.
>>> The flip side of that one being, how many of the US tankfarm sentries
>>> were of Japanese ethnic background on Dec.7'41 ?
>> Based on your research, which units were the sentries drawn from?
> 
> Thanks for the invitation but I have no desire at all to get drawn
> into that particular racism debate.

All I asked is what unit the guards where drawn from. If they weren't 
Hawaii Army National Guard units, the answer is most likely none.

> I'll also point out that there is no record of Japanese paratroopers
> "on the ground" on Oahu either. Perhaps some nisei or issei members of
> the Hawaiian community might have been more inspired to come to the
> aid of their Japanese homeland after they believed that the Japanese
> had indeed landed ? I suspect not but we'll never know for sure, now.

On December 7th, there were re****ts of paratroops landing on St Louis 
Heights, which resulted in the UH ROTC being mobilized, issued weapons, 
and sent out to look for them. UH ROTC was heavily Japanese-American and 
according to my source (Oda, _No Sword to Bury_), everyone re****ted and 
there were no issues. In the chaos of the day with the rumor of Japanese 
paratroops, wouldn't those inclined to sabotage struck?