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Colonel Sanders · 11-15-2003, 10:03 AM

Recently my government class got to meet a Libertarian. The man in person seemed amazingly smart, and he brought up three specific issues about World War Two.

1) He said that Chevrolet trucks were used by Japan to invade China.

2) He said that Pratt & Whitney engines were used in early Japanese fighter planes.

3) Perhaps worst of all, he claimed that Fairchild made a design for a fighter, the U.S. department of defense didn't want to buy the plane, so they told Fairchild they could sale the design to anyone they wanted to... And Fairchild, not knowing much about the war about to start, sold the design to Japan where it was renamed the "Mitsubishi Zero".

These to me, seem like impressive offenses. So far, I have found nothing supporting this on the internet, but I do trust the source(I also know the man personally). I was wondering if anyone here had heard any such facts about history, or what your opinion of these facts are, truth or lies?

TIA, L J

11-15-2003, 10:03 AM	#1
Colonel Sanders Resident AMD enthusiast Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Kansas Posts: 1,445	Fairchild, Pratt & Whitney, and Chevy too! Recently my government class got to meet a Libertarian. The man in person seemed amazingly smart, and he brought up three specific issues about World War Two. 1) He said that Chevrolet trucks were used by Japan to invade China. 2) He said that Pratt & Whitney engines were used in early Japanese fighter planes. 3) Perhaps worst of all, he claimed that Fairchild made a design for a fighter, the U.S. department of defense didn't want to buy the plane, so they told Fairchild they could sale the design to anyone they wanted to... And Fairchild, not knowing much about the war about to start, sold the design to Japan where it was renamed the "Mitsubishi Zero". These to me, seem like impressive offenses. So far, I have found nothing supporting this on the internet, but I do trust the source(I also know the man personally). I was wondering if anyone here had heard any such facts about history, or what your opinion of these facts are, truth or lies? TIA, L J __________________ Main: Gigabyte GA-770T USB3 - Phenom II 840 - 4GB DDR3 - Radeon 5750 1GB HTPC: MSI K9N6PGM2-V2 - Athlon II 250 - 4GB DDR2 - Radeon 5670 512MB HTPC: Zotac GeForce 6100E-E - Athlon X2 5800+ - 4GB DDR2 "Play a Windows CD backwards and you'll hear satanic voices, thats nothing, play it forwards and it installs Windows."