Profiles in Anti-Communist Courage

[Free-Stater 101]

Huber Matos Benitez of Cuba 11/26/1918-02/27/2014

A school teacher, revolutionary freedom fighter against Batista and a political activist. Huber Matos was at first aligned with Castros Cuban Rebels M-26-7 in overthrowing Batista as well as initially being a high ranking member within the Cuban military.

However Matos relationship with the revolution quickly soured seeing its Marxist leanings and he began to make speeches against Communism/Marxism and threatened to Resign. Castro by this point spoke to him downplaying his roll in the Marxism.

"Your resignation is not acceptable at this point. We still have too much work to do. I admit that Raúl [Castro] and Che [Guevara] are flirting with Marxism ... but you have the situation under control ... Forget about resigning ... But if in a while you believe the situation is not changing, you have the right to resign."

So Matos backed down for awhile but still notably wrote in his diary

"Communist influence in the government has continued to grow. I have to leave power as soon as possible. I have to alert the Cuban people as to what is happening."

A few days later he resigned and in response Castro ordered his immediate arrest, following that Matos was imprisoned via a bunch of smearing by Castor, for over nineteen years in deplorable fashion as described by him.

Prison was a long agony from which I emerged alive because of God's will. I had to go on hunger strikes, mount other types of protests. Terrible. On and off, I spent a total of sixteen years in solitary confinement, constantly being told that I was never going to get out alive, that I had been sentenced to die in prison. They were very cruel, to the fullest extent of the word. ... I was tortured on several occasions, was subjected to all kinds of horrors, all kinds, including the "CENSORED" . Once during a hunger strike a prison guard tried to crush my stomach with his boot ... Terrible things.

He was released in 1979 to go be with his family in the U.S. and advocated for democracy in Cuba until his recent death in 2014 in Miami Florida at an age of 95, sadly never living to see Castros death in 2016.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Six Hours in Hell.

This video is about Joseph Benavidez, a Green Beret who served in Vietnam (and earlier in the Korean War). If you have ten minutez, watch this video. It had me cursing under breath at how sheerly astounding the story was.



There's also a beautiful comment pinned under the video from Benavidez's daughter.

 

[Spartan303]

Six Hours in Hell.

This video is about Joseph Benavidez, a Green Beret who served in Vietnam (and earlier in the Korean War). If you have ten minutez, watch this video. It had me cursing under breath at how sheerly astounding the story was.



There's also a beautiful comment pinned under the video from Benavidez's daughter.

I remember this story well. Dude was a total boss.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Here's an informational snippet I remember reading as a wee pup in James Dunnigan's book Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War.

Nice nugget of information found amongst the plethora of fascinating trivia.

So last May some noble soul did an even longer writeup on Master Sergeant Jerry "Mad Dog" Shriver.

WARRIOR WEDNESDAY: Master Sergeant Jerry

In one engagement where his small team was encircled by waves of NVA soldiers Shriver contacted his leadership with what would become one of the most famous radio transmissions of the war: “No, no...I've got 'em right where I want 'em - surrounded from the inside.

www.themusastore.com

Has a lot of details, like the guns he used (the M-16 and variants weren't among them), his German Shepherd Klaus and the details of many of his exploits both on the battlefield and off, as well as his final fatal encounter where he was never seen again...

Also pictures.

He's a handsome Devil for sure.

 

[Zachowon]

So last May some noble soul did an even longer writeup on Master Sergeant Jerry "Mad Dog" Shriver.

WARRIOR WEDNESDAY: Master Sergeant Jerry

In one engagement where his small team was encircled by waves of NVA soldiers Shriver contacted his leadership with what would become one of the most famous radio transmissions of the war: “No, no...I've got 'em right where I want 'em - surrounded from the inside.

www.themusastore.com

Has a lot of details, like the guns he used (the M-16 and variants weren't among them), his German Shepherd Klaus and the details of many of his exploits both on the battlefield and off, as well as his final fatal encounter where he was never seen again...

Also pictures.

He's a handsome Devil for sure.

I shed a tear of manliness for that man.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Marcelino de Mata, the most decorated man in the Portuguese Armed Forces, who happened to be Black and born in the then Portuguese colony of Guinea-Bissau. The "Black Knight of the Portuguese Empire" as he was called saved the lives of hundreds of soldiers and took part in over 2400 operations.

After the Ultramar War was lost by Portugal, he was exiled from his home country and lived in Portugal. There the post-Carnation Revolution Communist Portuguese Government arrested and tortured him repeatedly before he could escape to Spain in 1975. After the Communist government was removed in a coup, de Mata helped rebuild the Portuguese Armed Forces under a Democratic government.

(In Portuguese but you can use Translation software pretty easy)

Morreu Marcelino da Mata, o militar mais condecorado do Exército

Nascido na Guiné-Bissau, aonde, após o 25 de Abril, foi proibido de regressar, o militar que se destacou na Guerra Colonial foi vítima de covid-19.

www.publico.pt

 

[Husky_Khan]

Learned about Captain... and later Colonel Lewis Millett who served in World War Two, the Korean War and Vietnam War. He joined the US Army at the age of 18 but deserted to join the Canadian Army when it looked like the US wouldn't enter World War Two... then after Pearl Harbor he returned and enlisted in the US Army again and served in North Africa and Italy where he earned a Silver Star for driving a half track filled with ammunition that was on fire away from other troops and then jumping out before it exploded. He also shot down a German fighter plane with a halftrack mounted machine gun among other exploits.

In the Korean War, his most notable exploit was leading his platoon in a bayonet charge against a ChiCom position where they killed over fifty enemy soldiers, twenty of them by bayoneting and Captain Millett himself was seriously injured by a grenade exploding at his feet. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for this action.

BUT his career was far from over because he helped refine the tactics of Ranger School post-Korea and then in the Vietnam War, helped advise and lead both LRRP (Long Range Recon Patrols) missions as well as participate in the controversial but effective CIA-sponsored Phoenix Program.





Plus that moustache!

 

[Captain X]

Yet another person I'd love to make an anime out of.

 

[Free-Stater 101]

Warning the below article has been copy pasted from the website vacusa.word.press I claim no ownership.

Colonel HO NGOC CAN (1940-1975)

He was one who determined to fight Communists to death.

Ho Ngoc Can was admitted in the ARVN Junior Military Academy when he was 14 years old. After graduation, he served 4 years as an instructor sergeant in the same academy. In 1961, he attended the Officer Candidates Class at the Dong De Military School and was the distinguished graduate of the Class of 1962.

After commissioned, Can served the in Vietnamese Ranger as a platoon leader. He was promoted to captain in 1965, to major in 1968, to lieutenant colonel in 1971, and to full colonel in 1974. He was successfully commanding the 1/33 Battalion (21st Infantry Division), the 15th Regiment (9th Inf. Div.). In 1974, Can was appointed province chief of Chuong Thien Province, Vietnam deep south area. On April 30, 1975, he refused to surrender to the enemy. Along with his troops, Can was fighting with all his might, holding the provincial headquarters until 11:00 PM on May 1, when his forces were out of ammunition. In the last minutes, he ordered the soldiers to leave the headquarters for safety while he and a faithful Popular Force militiaman covered them with a machine gun. He fell into the hands of the Communist force after he failed an attempt to kill himself. He told the enemy that he wouldn’t surrender, and asked them to let him salute the ARVN colors with his uniform on before the execution. His famous saying before being executed is: “Don’t cover my eyes, since I want to see my people the last time of my life”

Colonel Can was publicly executed by the Communist firing squad after a quick summary trial at a Communist kangaroo court

The rest of the article can be found here.

 

[Husky_Khan]

A video produced by The Front about Albert Pentilla, an American from Minnesota and veteran of the 1918 Karelian conflicts who led a group of American volunteers that fought in the Winter War, defending Finland from Soviet aggression back in 1939-40.



And it briefly touches on the context of other American (who were formed into the Finnish-American Legion) and International volunteers who aided Finland during the Soviet Invasion.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Kenneth Hill Rowe (No Kum-Sok), the North Korean Pilot who defected from Kim Il Sung's North Korea soonafter the end of the Korean War with his state of the art MiG-15 jet, passed away in his Daytona Beach, Florida home at the age of 90.

He has an interesting life story growing up in a very pro-Japanese Korean family (and as per colonial policy at the same in 1932 taking a Japanese name of Okamura Kyoshi) and apparently having little sense of a Korean identity himself. Between the end of World War Two and the outbreak of the Korean War he managed to hide his Father's pro-Japanese past and played the part of a dutiful Communist adherent and managed to achieve his childhood dream of being a military pilot by joining the North Korean Air Force and becoming a pilot despite having no flight experience.

He took flight training in Manchuria, flew over a hundred missions in the Korean War and was repeatedly promoted. Then on September 21st, 1953, mere weeks after the end of the Korean War he got into his MiG-15, made the short flight across the border from Sunan (outside Pyongyang) to Kimpo US Air Base in South Korea, almost crashing into an F-86 that was landing in the opposite direction. Miraculously he wasn't shot down during this defection and calmly parked his MiG-15 between two F-86 Sabres and upon exiting the cockpit, tore up a picture of Kim Il Sung before surrendering to security personnel.

Though he was unaware of Operation Moolah at the time of his defection, he was still awarded $100,000 for his defection which is over a million dollars in todays money. In response to the defection, five of Kenneth Rowe's wingmates back in North Korea were executed despite having nothing to do with the defection.

He emigrated to the United States, was reunited with his Mother who defected in 1951, graduated with degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering and worked as an aeronautics engineer for various US businesses ranging from Boeing and Grumman to General Electric and Westinghouse. He married, had three children and at the time of his passing had a grandchild as well. He wrote his own book back in 1996 and said he never second guessed his defection.

Kenneth Rowe, North Korean pilot who defected in Soviet plane, dies at 90 | NK News

Kenneth Hill Rowe, a North Korean pilot who defected in his Soviet MiG-15 aircraft across the Demilitarized Zone shortly after the Korean War, passed away last month at his home in Daytona, Florida. Born No Kum Sok to a relatively affluent businessman in Sinhung County, South Hamgyong Province...

www.nknews.org

 

[ATP]

Kenneth Hill Rowe (No Kum-Sok), the North Korean Pilot who defected from Kim Il Sung's North Korea soonafter the end of the Korean War with his state of the art MiG-15 jet, passed away in his Daytona Beach, Florida home at the age of 90.

He has an interesting life story growing up in a very pro-Japanese Korean family (and as per colonial policy at the same in 1932 taking a Japanese name of Okamura Kyoshi) and apparently having little sense of a Korean identity himself. Between the end of World War Two and the outbreak of the Korean War he managed to hide his Father's pro-Japanese past and played the part of a dutiful Communist adherent and managed to achieve his childhood dream of being a military pilot by joining the North Korean Air Force and becoming a pilot despite having no flight experience.

He took flight training in Manchuria, flew over a hundred missions in the Korean War and was repeatedly promoted. Then on September 21st, 1953, mere weeks after the end of the Korean War he got into his MiG-15, made the short flight across the border from Sunan (outside Pyongyang) to Kimpo US Air Base in South Korea, almost crashing into an F-86 that was landing in the opposite direction. Miraculously he wasn't shot down during this defection and calmly parked his MiG-15 between two F-86 Sabres and upon exiting the cockpit, tore up a picture of Kim Il Sung before surrendering to security personnel.

Though he was unaware of Operation Moolah at the time of his defection, he was still awarded $100,000 for his defection which is over a million dollars in todays money. In response to the defection, five of Kenneth Rowe's wingmates back in North Korea were executed despite having nothing to do with the defection.

He emigrated to the United States, was reunited with his Mother who defected in 1951, graduated with degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering and worked as an aeronautics engineer for various US businesses ranging from Boeing and Grumman to General Electric and Westinghouse. He married, had three children and at the time of his passing had a grandchild as well. He wrote his own book back in 1996 and said he never second guessed his defection.

Kenneth Rowe, North Korean pilot who defected in Soviet plane, dies at 90 | NK News

Kenneth Hill Rowe, a North Korean pilot who defected in his Soviet MiG-15 aircraft across the Demilitarized Zone shortly after the Korean War, passed away last month at his home in Daytona, Florida. Born No Kum Sok to a relatively affluent businessman in Sinhung County, South Hamgyong Province...

www.nknews.org

That is proof why soviet system ultimatelly do not work - when you break all connections between people and made them cogs in machine,they run when they could not caring about what happen to other cogs after that.

Smart tyrant would not destroy society - becouse those people would not run becoue they would fear about safety of others.
In commie paradise others are dudes who wait to sell you to secret police - so why bother?