4/2/2023 0 Comments Atomic covert dropoutMost importantly, the fighting in China itself tied down the bulk of the Japanese Army throughout the war. OSS-led guerrillas, 10,000 Kachin tribesmen, helped undermine Japanese control in Burma, and the OSS established contact with other resistance movements in Thailand and Indochina. With the Burma Road severed, the Americans turned to an airlift and astonishingly supplied the Chinese by making thousands of flights “over the Hump,” across the Himalaya Mountains. In the beginning, after the Japanese had pushed through most of Southeast Asia, they were finally stopped at the border of India. But it was an important war and one in which the OSS made significant achievements. That contribution was mainly in the China-Burma-India Theater (CBI), which American veterans of the CBI often call the “forgotten war” of World War II. Although the most publicized achievements of the OSS occurred in Europe and North Africa, Donovan’s organization also contributed to the war against Japan in the Far East.
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