Funny thing is... George McCarthy happens to be the name of a tanker from A Company of 192nd Tank Brigade from Wisconsin.
[hider=boring WW2 trivia]It was the reargaurd for the retreat to Corrigidor.
Only 33 people from that tank company survived the war.

George MCCarthy was the only one to evade capture from the Japanese while subsisting on 22 varieties of bananas... was briefly and very traumaticly interrogated by communists (who also stole all his clothes).

No relation to Joseph McCarthy.

Before being mobilized as part of the 192nd, it was attached to the 32nd Nat'l Gaurd Division, which happened to be one of the first deployed into the Pacific, and the first to occupy Japan. The divison had spent over 15,696 hours in combat (48% of America's time served in WW2) and was not sent stateside until well after the war ended, and had to be used as a substitute for the 3rd Marine Division well into 1946 as they occupied the area around Nagasaki. [url=http://www.32nd-division.org/history/ww2/32ww2-13.html]Much inter-unit shuffling occured as only can happen in a government-operation.[/url][/hider]

The Mayguez incident was... *Military intellegence failure intensifies*

OTOH, we now know that it's a bad idea to drop a bomb known to make a 100 meter wide crater on 200 meter long island with friendlies still on it.

Anyways, [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICx8ka8JqIk]now for a pep-talk[/url]

[u]tech-trivia: Why Americans loved napalm:[/u] Napalm bombs, unlike high explosive, had no significant blast. Meaning 'danger close' was much closer-in, and was often utilized to counter the communist tendancy to 'hug' US units, allowing an overwhelmed position to break contact or reconsolidate a defensive position.

It was also of immesnly greater psychological value.

And it utterly wrecked VC tunnels.