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Excerpt from 1997 Chinese OG reunion: Arthur P. Frizzell Operations: BLACKBERRY was the second OG mission in China, landing 19 July at Liuchow. Art and Vern Hoppers had drawn lots in 1944 to determine which should be the first Section to jump into France. Art won so Hop was given first mission in China. I wish that we had been made to prepare a report on our China operations as we had on the French operations! In Grenoble we wanted to get onto other things, so the report I put together with the help of George Huguet, Ernie Trudeau, Tiny Ouellet and others was pretty cryptic and could have been better presented, but what's there we enjoy seeing now and regret losing a lot about China over the last 50 years. When we finished the operation in France we were given the opportunity to stay with the OSS and go to the other side of the world and do what needed to be done over there against the Japanese, or we could get out of the OSS and go do regular military duty. I don't know how many opted not to stay in OSS. My own personal point of view is that it was the greatest group of guys ever assembled. Heading for China we didn't know exactly what the job was that we had to do with the Chinese, but, as in France, a lot of things were developed sort of on the spot. As Hank has said, we would serve as cadres to larger units of Chinese troops. Al Cox had set up a tactical training unit in Iliang where we would teach the Chinese small group tactics. Everything finally got pieced together, including training in Col. Rucker's parachute school. Vernon Hoppers took the first Chinese group into the field and I took the second. As an aside, when Connie and I were serving in London in 1971, I was riding home from work on a bus and spotted Hoppers outside and after a frantic effort caught up with him to make one of only a few contacts with him over a 50-year period. Hoppers present whereabouts is unknown.
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