The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the intelligence agency of the United States during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branches of the United States Armed Forces. Other OSS functions included the use of propaganda,subversion,and post-war planning.
The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Theater of the Second World War. The beginning of the war is conventionally dated to the Marco Polo Bridge Incident on 7 July 1937,when a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops in Peking escalated into a full-scale invasion. Some Chinese historians believe that the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on 18 September 1931 marks the start of the war. This full-scale war between the Chinese and the Empire of Japan is often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia.
A commando is a combatant,or operative of an elite light infantry or special operations force,specially trained for carrying out raids and operating in small teams behind enemy lines.
The United States Naval Special Warfare Command (USNSWC),also known as,is the naval component of United States Special Operations Command,the unified command responsible for overseeing and conducting the nation's special operations and missions.
The Black Dragon Society,or the Amur River Society,was a prominent paramilitary,ultranationalist group in Japan.
The Empire of Japan committed war crimes in many Asian-Pacific countries during the period of Japanese imperialism,primarily during the Second Sino-Japanese and Pacific Wars. These incidents have been described as "the Asian Holocaust". Some war crimes were committed by Japanese military personnel during the late 19th century,but most were committed during the first part of the Shōwa era,the name given to the reign of Emperor Hirohito.
The Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon,better known by the acronym Hukbalahap,was a communist guerrilla movement formed by the farmers of Central Luzon. They were originally formed to fight the Japanese,but extended their fight into a rebellion against the Philippine government,known as the Hukbalahap Rebellion,in 1946. It was put down through a series of reforms and military victories by Defense Secretary,and later President,Ramon Magsaysay.
Lieutenant General Dai Li (Tai Li;Chinese:戴笠;pinyin:Dài Lì;Wade–Giles:Tai4 Li4;May 28,1897 –March 17,1946) was a Chinese spymaster. His courtesy name was Yunong (雨農). Born Dai Chunfeng (Tai Chun-feng;戴春風) in Bao'an,Jiangshan,Zhejiang province,he studied at the Whampoa Military Academy,where Chiang Kai-shek served as Chief Commandant,and later became head of Chiang's military intelligence agency:the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics (Chinese:国民政府军事委员会调查统计局;pinyin:guómín zhèngfǔjūnshìwěiyuánhuìdiàochátǒngjìjú) or ("jūntǒng" (军统) in short) of Republican China (1912-1949).
The Corps is a series of war novels written by W.E.B. Griffin about the United States Marine Corps before and during the years of World War II and the Korean War. The story features a tightly knit cast of characters in various positions within the Marine Corps,Navy,and upper levels of the United States Government.
Evans Fordyce Carlson was a decorated and retired United States Marine Corps general officer who was the legendary leader of "Carlson's Raiders" during World War II. Many credit Carlson with developing the tactics and attitude that would later come to define America's special operations forces. He is renowned for the "Makin Island raid" in 1942,and his raiders' "Long Patrol" behind Japanese lines on Guadalcanal,in which 488 Japanese were killed. Carlson popularized the phrase "gung-ho".
Milton Edward Miles was a Vice Admiral in the United States Navy,who served in World War II as head of Naval Intelligence operations in China,and later,second-in-command of the Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO).
Destination Gobi is a 1953 American Technicolor World War II film released by 20th Century-Fox. It was produced by Stanley Rubin,directed by Robert Wise and stars Richard Widmark and Don Taylor.
The Japanese occupation of the Philippines occurred between 1942 and 1945,when Imperial Japan occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II.
USS Decker (DE-47) was an Evarts class destroyer escort constructed for the United States Navy during World War II. She was sent off into dangerous North Atlantic Ocean waters to protect convoys and other ships from German submarines and fighter aircraft. She performed escort and antisubmarine operations in battle areas before sailing home victorious at the end of the conflict.
Maizuru Naval District was one of four main administrative districts of the pre-war Imperial Japanese Navy. Its territory included the entire Sea of Japan coastline from northern Kyūshūto western Hokkaidō.
The National Bureau of Investigation and Statistics,(NBIS or BIS),commonly known as Juntong,was the military intelligence agency of the Republic of China before 1946. It was devoted to intelligence gathering and covert spying operation for purposes of national security and defense. It was originally headed by Dai Li,and after 1946 he was succeeded by Mao Renfeng. This bureau was largely superseded by the Military Intelligence Bureau under Ministry of National Defense in Taiwan today.
The Kisarazu Naval Air Group was an aircraft and airbase garrison unit of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific campaign of World War II.
During the Japanese occupation of the islands in World War II,there was an extensive Philippine resistance movement,which opposed the Japanese and their collaborators with active underground and guerrilla activity that increased over the years. Fighting the guerrillas –apart from the Japanese regular forces –were a Japanese-formed Bureau of Constabulary,the Kenpeitai,and the Makapili. Postwar studies estimate that around 260,000 people were organized under guerrilla groups and that members of anti-Japanese underground organizations were more numerous. Such was their effectiveness that by the end of World War II,Japan controlled only twelve of the forty-eight provinces.
Baigongguan (zh:白公馆) and Zhazidong (zh:渣滓洞) were Chinese concentration camps that opened in 1943 and were used by the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACO) to gather intelligence about the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The camps were located in southwest China,in the Gele Mountains of Chongqing. In 1947,the camps were reopened by the Kuomintang to hold captured communist politicians of the Republic of China. After the People's Liberation Army started its advance on the area and threatened the liberation of the camps,General Dai Li of the Kuomintang authorized the camps to serve as the execution sites of the communist politicians in 1949.
