Behind Japanese Lines : With the OSS in Burma

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Label

Behind Japanese Lines : With the OSS in Burma

Title remainder

With the OSS in Burma

Creator

• Dunlop, Richard

Subject

• Burma
• Burma -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945
• Electronic books
• HISTORY -- Europe -- Western
• HISTORY -- Military | World War II
• History
• Japanese Occupation of Burma, 1942-1945
• 1939 - 1945
• United States
• United States, Office of Strategic Services
• United States, Office of Strategic Services -- History
• World War, 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States
• Secret service

Genre

• History
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

In early 1942, with World War II going badly, President Roosevelt turned to General William?Wild Bill" Donovan, now known historically as the?Father of Central Intelligence," with orders to form a special unit whose primary mission was to prepare for the eventual reopening of the Burma Road linking Burma and China by performing guerilla operations behind the Japanese lines. Thus was born OSS Detachment 101, the first clandestine special force formed by Donovan and one that would play a highly dangerous but vital role in the reconquest of Burma by the Allies. Behind Japanese Li

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Dewey number

940.53/591

Index

no index present

LC call number

D767.6

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries