 Lines) among others.One supporter was George Bronson Rea, a former railway engineer and expert on Chinese affairs who in 1935 published "The Case for Manchukuo" (D. Appletone Century Co. New York), where he argued in favor of the Japanese protection of the Manchukuo puppet state.During the war a few US POWs became members of the German armed forces, but no unit organized of American volunteers were ever raised.