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"'One could not choose a worse place for fighting the Japanese,' said Winston Churchill of North Burma, deeming it "the most forbidding fighting country imaginable." But it was here that the fledgling Office of Strategic Services conducted its most successful combat operations of World War II. Troy Sacquety takes readers into Burma's steaming jungles in the first book to fully cover the exploits and contributions of the OSS's Detachment 101 against the Japanese Imperial Army. Functioning independently of both the U.S. Army and OSS headquarters--and with no operational or organizational model to follow--Detachment 101 was given enormous latitude in terms of developing its mission and methods. It grew from an inexperienced and poorly supported group of 21 agents training on the job in a lethal environment to a powerful force encompassing 10,000 guerrillas (spread across as many as 8 battalions), 60 long-range agents, and 400 short-range agents. By April 1945, it remained the only American ground force in North Burma while simultaneously conducting daring amphibious operations that contributed to the liberation of Rangoon. With unrivalled access to OSS archives, Sacquety vividly recou

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Author

Troy J. Sacquety

Publisher

University Press of Kansas

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780700620593

Category

history

Subjects

History, Military History, Humanities

Rating

4.3 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14