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The OSS in Burma : Jungle War against the Japanese / Troy J. Sacquety.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sacquety, Troy J.
- Series:
- Modern war studies.
- Modern war studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Burma.
- Burma--History--Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.
- Burma.
- United States. Office of Strategic Services. Detachment 101.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first and only book to cover the World War II exploits and contributions of Detachment 101--considered by many to be the forerunner of today's Special Forces--in Burma against the Japanese Imperial Army.
- Contents:
- 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
- Reorganizing after Myitkyina: September-December 1944
- A new organization of sorts
- The last OSS branches arrive: January-March 1945
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-309) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780700620593
- 0700620591
- OCLC:
- 933561332
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