From my reading on the Malay Emergency, the CT's did not have any real connections with the VC. Although the first leader of the CT's was connected to Vietnam and the fight against the French. However he turned out to be a double agent working for the French and then the British.
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VC & CT spoke different languages, had different goals, cultural background and nationality. CT was poorly equipped and inexperienced while VC was battle harden and well supplied with commie block & captured ARVN weapons. If anything, it's CT needing VC's help rather than the other way around.
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Here is a couple pictures I found
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isnt that a Mk V? That doesnt look like any of My No 1's
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My wife's 2 Uncles fought with the Malay police in the emergancy, one of took us to a memorial where he pointed out the name of his friends who didn't come back.
the police museum has an interesting collection of guns taken from the CT's, just about everything was used. The CT's also had support of about 200 japanese soldiers who had fled into the jungle, the CT's murdered the remaining japanese when the peace talks got underway.
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/4/4891199-Royal_Malaysia_Police_Museum_Kuala_Lumpur.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3098/3098812488_077fc9ba27_z.jpg
Strange but true..........
In the last days of WWII when the Russians were attacking Berlin the first troops the Russians sent to attack the city were captured Germans soldiers who "agreed" to fight for the Russians. The first troops these German/Russian soldiers encountered when they attacked the city were Frenchmen in the SS Charlemagne brigade.
Looks to me that some of the CT's in Malaya shortened the barrel on some of the M1 Carbines they captured from the Brits, or perhaps they were dropped by the Brits during WW2 , for the Malaya underground to use against the Japanese, then the CT's aquired the carbines
And many, perhaps most of the "French" troops at Dien Bien Phu were ex-SS and Wehrmacht types in the Foreign Legion. IIRC several Legion regiments were pretty much entirely ex-SS and Wehrmacht. Of course not all of them were German either!
Yes they did use arm caches dropped by the Allies in WWII. Chin Peng was even decorated by the Brits postwar for the resistance against the Japanese.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chin_Peng
I have his book "My side of history" or as I call it "A dummies guide on how not to wage a insurgency" A good read on just callous the commies are in glazing over the harm they do to others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chin_Peng
I have his book "My side of history" or as I call it "A dummies guide on how not to wage a insurgency" A good read on just callous the commies are in glazing over the harm they do to others.
Thats interesting what you say about Japanese joining up with the CT's, i talked to some Dutch veterans of the war in the Netherlands East Indies after the DUtch returned when Japanese collapse, we never hear much about those Japs who chose to join the terroroists,..much have been hard core fanatics
CT were predominately of Chinese decent and a minority group in Malaya. How these Maoist commies thought they could simply overpower and dominate the Malay majority supported by superior Brit & other commonwealth troops is a mystery and total miscalculation on the commies part. It took the VC close to 30 years and massive support from the commie block before they were able to proclaim victory and finally overpowered the S Vietnamese govt.
