I know there are a couple of Joseph McCarthy threads here. This one's different. In John Birmingham's Axis of Time Trilogy, book two, Designated Targets, I think it is; one of the "uptime" characters reads a story about Joseph McCarthy, in the AOT universe, is an insignificant, very minor, historical character, and the article, in the Los Angeles Times, says that Joseph McCarthy was killed by the Japanese. When I studied the 1950s in high school, we studied the McCarthy era. Joseph McCarthy was turned down
by the Marines for service in World War II. I don't know the reason why but he managed to con his way into a tailgunner's position on a B-24 Liberator.
He was a civilian, not, REPEAT, NOT, an active duty Marine, so if he'd been shot down and captured, I can't believe I'm saying this, the Japanese would
have been within their rights under the laws of war, to shoot him as a spy.
What if Joseph McCarthy was killed in World War II?