Allied intelligence efforts in Thailand influenced the course of World War II in the China-Burma-India Theater.
Here s What You Need to Know: Japanese control became official on the day Pearl Harbor was attacked, December 7, 1941.
Thailand was perhaps the least known, though surely more scenic and exotic, covert battleground of World War II. For one American, it would be the adventure of a lifetime already filled with adventure, for another mental anguish in the dark. A British agent was almost killed by his briefcase. A rebel would find himself a royal stand-in, then a resister. In the end, the Japanese would be so oblivious to reality they were dancing just two days before their doom.