Office of Strategic Services, Detachment 101 collection, 1943-1988.

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Office of Strategic Services, Detachment 101 collection, 1943-1988.

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Consists of photocopies of: biographical information on Vincent Curl (n.d.) and Robert H. Flaherty (1988); miscellaneous service documents, personal and official correspondence of E.M. Wayland, William Cheah, and Daniel Mudrinich (1943-1982); inventory of O.S.S. Detachment 101 items in possession of the Presidio Army Museum (1986); scrapbook of Joseph M. Straub containing miscellaneous service documents and newspaper clippings and pamphlets on U.S. activities in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II (1944-1949); magazine article on the Jingpaw Rangers (n.d.); and the following manuscripts : SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE : MY TOUR IN THE CBI THEATER by John H. Allen (n.d.); SOUTH OF THE NAMKHAM ROAD by John Jervis (n.d.); BORN TO DIE : A TRUE STORY by Ernest A. Marshall (1981); DETACHMENT 101 OF THE OSS by Jones R. Ward (1986).

3 boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7123707

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Wayland, E. M.

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Presidio Army Museum

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Jervis, John

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Cheah, William

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Allen, John Henry, 1836-1890

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Marshall, Ernest A.

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Curl, Vincent.

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Mudrinich, Daniel

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Flaherty, Robert E.

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Straub, Joseph T.

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Joseph M. Straub was a staff sargeant attached to Detachment 101 - Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S) from 1943-1945. He spent those years in the jungles of India and Burma training natives to find the Japanese, making incursions behind the lines to spy on the Japanese, and cleaning areas for the building of the Ledo Road. From the description of Joseph M. Straub photograph collection. 1943-1945. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 52606462 ...

United States. Office of Strategic Services. Detachment 101

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The Office of Strategic Services, Detachment 101 was the first organization of its kind in U.S. military history. It was created to conduct espionage, guerrilla warfare, propaganda and escape and evasion in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II. From the description of Office of Strategic Services, Detachment 101 collection, 1943-1988. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 23991523 ...

Ward, James Reginald

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