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[Flying10uk]

The reason that I asked the question in post 10 is because I've heard it said, more than once, that the Japanese weren't half as good at jungle fighting as people think they were.

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[fjruple]

The reason that I asked the question in post 10 is because I've heard it said, more than once, that the Japanese weren't half as good at jungle fighting as people think they were.

In the early part of the Vietnam War (US involvement) the VC were pretty good a lot of their cadre had experience fighting the French and before that the Japanese. Ho Chi Minh was supported by the American OSS in WWII fighting the Japanese. By the time the US got involved in the late 50's and early 1960's the VC had been beating up on the South Vietnam forces which requested SF support and advisors from the US using COIN operations. By after the Tet Offensive the VC had been pretty much killed off. The NVA pretty much took over from there. But I digest. Against untrained, undiscipilined conventional ground forces without air or artillery support they were pretty good.

--fjruple