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University Press of Kansas
Language
English
Pages
320

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Subjects
United States, Secret service, United States. Office of Strategic Services. Detachment 101, World War, 1939-1945, History, United states, office of strategic services, Burma, history, World war, 1939-1945, secret service, united states, World war, 1939-1945, united states, World war, 1939-1945, burma
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Burma, United States
Times
Japanese occupation, 1942-1945

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Table of 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
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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-309) and index.

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Lawrence, Kansas
Series
Modern war studies

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.54/867309591
Library of Congress
D767.6 .S27 2013

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Pagination
ix, 320 pages
Number of pages
320

ID Numbers

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OL30662391M
ISBN 13
9780700619092
LCCN
2012045114

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