Bob's Bullets ... An era ends with the passing of Alonzo Shattuck

TOKYO — It was with sadness that I learned of the passing of Alonzo Shattuck recently in Fountain Hills, Arizona. Al was the last surviving member of the notorious Occupation Era Canon Agency, which Substack readers may recall reading about in an earlier post. Al was 96 years old and lived a long and fruitful life.

Al was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 1926, He dropped out of St. Louis University to enlist in the U.S. Army when World War II broke out and served on Iwo Jima. At the end of the war, he was sent to Japan and assigned to the Provost Marshal’s office at the Port of Yokohama as head of security. During his stint there he shut down a very active black market trade involving GI’s and yakuza gangs and was recruited by the Canon Agency, a semi-secret black ops organization that fought North Korean drug trafficking and communists agents infiltrating Japan.