Captured Behind Japanese Lines

Captured Behind Japanese Lines
Author: Daniel Berke
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2021-12-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 139901689X

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This WWII biography vividly recounts one man’s experience as a Special Ops soldier and POW in Japanese occupied Burma. In his postwar life, Frank Berkovitch was a quiet, reserved tailor. But during World War II, he served with the legendary Chindits in Burma and endured years of Japanese captivity. He fought as a Bren-gunner on Operation LONGCLOTH, the first mission to take them deep behind enemy lines. He was even General Orde Wingate’s batman. The Chindits were Wingate’s inspired idea. Under his dauntless leadership, they dispelled the myth that the Imperial Japanese Army was invincible. Outnumbered, outgunned, and reliant on RAF air drops for supplies, the 3,000 men of the Chindit columns overcame harsh jungle terrain to take the fight to the enemy. They wreaked havoc with enemy communications and caused heavy enemy casualties while gathering vital intelligence. During the desperate race to escape from Burma, Frank was captured crossing the Irrawaddy river. He spent two years imprisoned by notoriously cruel captors. Superbly researched, this inspiring book vividly describes the Chindits’ first operation and the heroism of Frank and his comrades, many of whom never returned.


Captured Behind Japanese Lines
Language: en
Pages: 197
Authors: Daniel Berke
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-30 - Publisher: Pen and Sword Military

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This WWII biography vividly recounts one man’s experience as a Special Ops soldier and POW in Japanese occupied Burma. In his postwar life, Frank Berkovitch w
Captured Behind Japanese Lines
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Daniel Berke
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-29 - Publisher: Pen & Sword Military

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"Never have I had greater respect for soldiers than those of the 14th Army who served under Bill Slim, and in particular those guys who were in the Chindit colu
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Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: Richard Dunlop
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1979 - Publisher:

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Recounts the experiences of OSS Detachment 101, a group of Americans who performed guerrilla operations behind the Japanese lines in Burma during World War II.
Behind Japanese Lines
Language: en
Pages: 379
Authors: Ray C. Hunt
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-23 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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This WWII combat memoir offers a rare firsthand account of the Allied guerilla forces fighting the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. In the Spring of 1942
Nisei linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War II (Paperbound)
Language: en
Pages: 536
Authors: James C. McNaughton
Categories: Japanese Americans
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Government Printing Office

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"This book tells the story of an unusual group of American soldiers in World War II, second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served as interpreters and