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In the long river of history, we focus on a figure related to the Makin Island sneak attack, whose experience is not only closely related to the American God-class submarine Nautilus, but also has a close connection with China's Eighth Route Army. That man was Evans Carlson, a young man who had falsified his age in order to join the army, and his combat experience jumped between World War I and World War II to become a member of the Marine Corps. Carlson's story is both a legend of individual heroism and a testimony to Sino-US military exchanges.
In 1927, Carlson served in Shanghai and became a member of the Marine Corps. The young soldier was good at guerrilla warfare, which made him deeply interested in the combat methods of the Eighth Route Army. With the outbreak of the All-Out War of Resistance, Carlson came to China to serve as an embassy counselor and intelligence officer in the Office of the Naval Attaché in Shanghai. After reading Edgar Snow's "Journey to the West," he was full of curiosity about the Chinese Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army, and was eager to visit the anti-Japanese base to find out.
Carlson arrived as an observer at the base of the Chinese Communist Party for a 52-day in-depth expedition. He had extensive contacts with high-level CCP officials, including Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou, and Deng Xiaoping. However, Carlson did not just go out and watch, but like Chu Yunfei in "Bright Sword", he personally participated in various military operations of the Eighth Route Army, from training to actual combat, he witnessed how the Eighth Route Army used guerrilla tactics to defeat the Japanese army.
Carlson was shocked that the Eighth Route Army transformed ordinary farmers into trained fighters. Not only did he cross nearly 1,500 kilometers in the base area, but he also talked long with Chairman Mao all night, which completely changed his view of the Chinese military. Although Carlson did not become a communist, he became a "Christian who believed in both God and socialism."
In 1940, Carlson retired from the military in order to freely express his views on the war and the political situation. He published the book "China's Double Star", which compiled the tactics of the Chinese army, and wrote "The Organization and Combat Capability of the Chinese Army". This expedition deeply influenced him, and led him, together with James Roosevelt and William Donovan, to propose the formation of a Marine guerrilla force, the Navy Melee Corps, whose tactical training was derived from the guerrilla tactics of the Eighth Route Army.
Carlson made many achievements in later operations, but the ideas he absorbed from the Chinese military were not recognized in the mainstream of the American military, resulting in him being disqualified to command operations after 1943.
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