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.
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It is 2007 and I am 10 years old when my father takes me to an anti-communist protest in Little Saigon, California. Almost everyone there is a South Vietnamese refugee, clutching the corner of a banner or waving the former republicâs yellow and red striped flag. Iâm too young to understand why weâre out on the hot sidewalk â mostly I just want to go home â but I am old enough to know my fatherâs migration story by heart, to know how he fled Saigon in 1975, how he was separated from his family for 10 years, and how he blamed it all on North Vietnamese communists.