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Alexander:
Hoe:guerrilla warfare aspect, and then there was
the underwater demolition aspect, which was
clearing the beaches and scouting the
beaches. There was an overlap where the
waterline was, basically, and so when they
combined the two, eventually the school was
assigned to China.
This group that you were in now?
Yes. Roger One and Roger Two went over to
China. We left at the end of 1944 and went
to China. So, Roger One and Roger Two
eventually ended up in the China group, which
was called the Sino-American Cooperative
Organization [SACO] . That is how we ended up
in China. The China group had already been
in existence. The SACO group had been there
since 1942, and they were spread throughout
China. When we got to Calcutta, India, they
split us up, and we went to different camps.[Editor' s note: SACO, often referred to as
the "Rice Paddy Navy," was a joint unit
consisting of Chinese Nationalist and
American military personnel. SACO was headed
by Lieutenant General Tai Li, the chief of14
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Hoe, Robert & Alexander, William J. Oral History Interview with Robert Hoe, September 20, 2003, text, September 20, 2003; Fredericksburg, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1613113/m1/16/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation.