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The OSS in Burma, 1942-1945 : jungle war against the Japanese
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Details
- Creator
- Troy J. Sacquety
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013]
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (ix, 320 pages) : illustrations, maps
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780700620593, 0700620591, 0700620591, 9780700619092, 9780700620180, 0700619097, 0700620184, 9780700619092, 0700619097
- OCLC
- ocn933561332
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-309) and index.
- Before the storm -- The fall of Burma -- Laying the groundwork: 1941-January 1943 -- Creating the detachment out of an undefined problem -- Deconfliction -- OSS and SOE -- Finding a location -- Detachment 101 sets up the Jungle School -- Communications -- Moving toward the first operations -- Long-range penetration operations -- A Group -- B Group -- W Group -- BALLS, BALL's #1, and REX -- The evaluations -- Short-range penetrations meet success -- The first short-range effort, Operation FORWARD -- Group -- KNOTHEAD -- Rethinking operations: the detachment evolves, February 1943-January 1944 -- The detachment reevaluates its personnel situation -- Finances -- Communications and coding -- Developing liaison -- Supplies remain a problem -- New additions to Detachment 101 -- Peers takes over: Detachment 101 comes of age, January-May 1944 -- Existing force structure -- New OSS branches arrive -- Detachment 101 and the campaign for Myitkyina: February-August 1944 -- Postscript -- Peers continues his reforms: June-August 1944 -- Existing force structure -- New OSS branches arrive -- Reorganizing after Myitkyina: September-December 1944 -- Existing force structure -- A new organization of sorts -- The last OSS branches arrive: January-March 1945 -- Existing force structure -- New branches arrive -- The Shan states: August 1944-March 1945 -- The push after Myitkyina -- The Arakan field unit: February-June 1945 -- The Arakan field unit (AFU) -- Rangoon -- The last months: April-July 1945 -- Field operations -- The detachment -- Detachment 101 disbands