Joseph M. Straub photograph collection. 1943-1945.

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Joseph M. Straub photograph collection. 1943-1945.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52606462

Contains the following types of materials: photographs, photo album. Covers the following war: World War II (WWII). Contains photographs of the following military unit and organizations: Detachment 101 - O.S.S. General description of the collection: The Joseph M. Straub photograph collection includes a photo album starting in Calaittes, India, showing the city and Indian people. Then it moves northeast to the India-Burma border where "B" camp was established and out of which his detachment operated. Photos show numerous native villages where the O.S.S. detachment recruited and trained natives (one group becoming known as the Kochin Rangers). Among the tribes they worked with were the Naga headhunters who cooperated fully with the Americans. Included are photos of Japanese spies who were captured and interrogated along one photo showing a young girl who was executed shortly after her capture. There are also numerous photos of sectors of the Ledo Road and many photos of the jungle, rivers, and sites wherein they operated. This is an absolutely fascinating album which is extremely well captioned, almost in storybook form, certainly in chronological order from Straub's first day in to his last day out. This is a significant photo essay on a little known aspect of a sector of the American involvement in World War II.

1 box (312 photographs)

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 7656354

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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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 ...