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Previous discussions of Mills, Mills, and Brunner 2002  are these: OSS CBI Photobook 15 - Southwest China, 1945- Reconnaissance, Part 2,...

This is a second look back at a May 6, 2014 post  of photos showing the OSS team training with cameras just prior to deployment.   The firs...

November, 1944, The National Mall, Washington, D.C. –   Our EJZ and a small group of buddies, having completed survival and tactical traini...

My maternal grandfather, Adam Matynka, was one of 8 children, and I never knew it. Undoubtedly, my parents took me with them to weddings ...

Lulajże, Jezuniu, “ Lullaby, Little Jesus” is a traditional Polish Christmas carol dating from the nineteenth century, or who knows, perhap...

Gilbert Stuart: The OSS operational groups were the first American military men to achieve substantial success in training Asians.  Every...

Sisterhood of Spies   is an account of women in the OSS in the European and CBI theaters in WWII.  Author Elizabeth P. McIntosh discusses C...

Scholar and farmer Victor Davis Hanson recorded six lectures on aspects of WWII, prepared according the same approach he took in writing hi...

"The Chinese Puzzle" is the title of Chapter 8 in the second edition of R.H. Smith,  OSS: The Secret History of America's Fir...

"The Chinese Puzzle" is the title of Chapter 8 in the second edition of R.H. Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's Firs...