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tall tales for DK to clarify

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Originally posted by Jack Swords One photo I remember is of a Japanese submarine scuttled on the Pacific side. Probably David can answer the question soon!!" Tall tales?? some internet fact or fictions??? With a name like rufus, it's got to be true!! "Night of the Yaqui Moon." The essay, by Jane Pattie, is based on a story former Texas Ranger Rufus Van Zandt told. Van Zandt spent a lot of time hunting bears and big cats in Mexico and became friends with the fierce Yaqui Indians, a tribe the Mexican government had tried its best to exterminate. When the war began, the U.S. government asked Van Zandt to keep his eyes and ears open for Japanese or German activity south of the border. He did, and found a considerable Japanese presence on the west coast of Mexico. Eventually, according to Van Zandt, he participated in a raid by Yaqui Indians on a clandestine Japanese submarine refueling point on the Pacific side of Baja California. He said a submarine and two trawlers were sunk and a fair amount of Japanese were killed. A short time later, Mexico declared war against the Axis powers. The inference is that Mexico had been playing footsy with Japan and Germany prior to the time of the raid, but that, fearing an American invasion, it decided to throw in the with the Allies. Whether all this is true or just another war story is open to further scholarship, but it makes a heck of a read.

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Originally posted by David K Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 " Quote: Originally posted by Jack Swords One photo I remember is of a Japanese submarine scuttled on the Pacific side. Probably David can answer the question soon!!" Tall tales?? some internet fact or fictions??? With a name like rufus, it's got to be true!! "Night of the Yaqui Moon." The essay, by Jane Pattie, is based on a story former Texas Ranger Rufus Van Zandt told. Van Zandt spent a lot of time hunting bears and big cats in Mexico and became friends with the fierce Yaqui Indians, a tribe the Mexican government had tried its best to exterminate. When the war began, the U.S. government asked Van Zandt to keep his eyes and ears open for Japanese or German activity south of the border. He did, and found a considerable Japanese presence on the west coast of Mexico. Eventually, according to Van Zandt, he participated in a raid by Yaqui Indians on a clandestine Japanese submarine refueling point on the Pacific side of Baja California. He said a submarine and two trawlers were sunk and a fair amount of Japanese were killed. A short time later, Mexico declared war against the Axis powers. The inference is that Mexico had been playing footsy with Japan and Germany prior to the time of the raid, but that, fearing an American invasion, it decided to throw in the with the Allies. Whether all this is true or just another war story is open to further scholarship, but it makes a heck of a read. Mis-quoted/ out of context as usual... The 'question' that Jack said I could answer was about the San Roque shipwrecks... and I did. The Japanese submarine is a photo that Jack remembered... Please try harder goat... maybe one of these days your facts will be non-fiction. [Edited on 11-22-2009 by David K] it's your assignment DK. it told you it may be fact or fiction, and figured you would sleuth it... oh well, tally ho old chap!!

Maybe another time amigo... It is a beautiful day outside, and I am going to get off this PC and enjoy it now!

Jeeezo....100,000 posts between the two of you and you can't get the quote boxes right.