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Operation Embankment

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Author : Pierce Rhoads
language : en
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Release Date : 2021-04-30

Operation Embankment written by Pierce Rhoads and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-30 with categories.

In August of 1945, Major Albert Peter Dewey was assigned to lead the first OSS team into Saigon, Cochinchina. The mission was code-named Operation Embankment. Originally, it was to be a typical OSS operation, involving ambushes and sabotage. However, when the war abruptly ended on August 15th, the mission's main purpose was changed. No longer would it be a guerrilla military operation. Instead, its new identity would be that of a political intelligence unit and its new goal would be to clandestinely gather information on the military, political and economic situations in Cochinchina. Although there were French military units present in Indochina, they were all imprisoned as a result of a Japanese coup carried out in March 1945. Therefore, the only credible military forces belonged to the Vietnamese Liberation Front, commonly known as the Viet Minh. The leader of the Viet Minh was Ho Chi Minh. On September 2nd, he declared Vietnamese independence. With neither the British nor the French Army to restrain them, the Vietnamese nationalists quickly consolidated their power in Hanoi while making similar preparations to do so in Saigon.On September 1st, the first contingent of Operation Embankment arrived in Saigon. They were overwhelmed by the disorder and violence they witnessed. Attacks against the French Colons (French colonists) occurred daily. Dewey and the rest of the team arrived on September 4, 1945. Within days, they were sending reports back to both the OSS Headquarters in Kandy and to the State Department in Washington, D.C. Most of his information came from French and Vietnamese informants, especially the Viet Minh. When the French discovered Dewey was meeting with their mortal enemies, they were furious. They felt betrayed. They had considered Dewey to be one of their own.Into this potentially explosive situation a new element, in the person of General Douglas Gracey, was added. On September 13, 1945, Gracey, along with a small expeditionary force, landed in Saigon. Gracey was a believer in "Old School" military discipline. Immediately, he became involved in frequent clashes with the much less formal OSS and its leader, Peter Dewey. Gracey wanted to crush the Vietnamese independence movement and restore Indochina to French colonial rule. Dewey, on the other hand, realized the British and French would never be able to regain control over Indochina. He presciently described the futility of trying to restore French colonial rule when he stated, "Cochinchina is burning, the French and the British are being destroyed here and the United States should stay out of Southeast Asia." In their ongoing conflict, Gracey was continually frustrated by Dewey's keen intellect and razor-sharp wit. After a particularly rancorous conference, Gracey decided he had enough. On September 23rd, he ordered Dewey out as a "persona non grata". Dewey's superiors were notified he was to be removed by September 26, 1945.On the morning of September 26th, after a long wait for his flight back to OSS Headquarters, Dewey and his executive officer, Major Herbert Bluechel, decided to return to the OSS villa for lunch. As they were approaching the villa, they were ambushed at a roadblock, a short distance from their destination. Dewey was killed instantly. Bluechel managed to escape back to the villa. After Bluechel's return, a three-hour skirmish ensued between the OSS team and their assailants. Finally, British troops were dispatched to the villa to break the siege and to rescue the Embankment Team. However, when the fighting was over, Dewey's body along with his jeep had disappeared. They were never found, nor was the group responsible for Dewey's death ever officially identified.

Operation Embankment

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Author : Pierce Rhoads
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The circumstances surrounding the death of the first American soldier in Vietnam are shrouded in mystery and intrigue. The soldier in question was the leader of an elite OSS unit, which arrived in Saigon in early September 1945. Three weeks later, he was murdered in an ambush on the day he was supposed to return to OSS Detachment 404 Headquarters in Candy, Ceylon. His body was never recovered and the group, which killed him, was never identified. His name is not engraved on the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial nor is it included in any list of U.S. soldiers missing in action in Vietnam. However, there is no doubt Major A. Peter Dewey was the first American soldier to die in what would eventually become America's most controversial war. This is the story of Operation Embankment, a secret State Department mission, which Dewey led into the French colony of Indochina at the end of World War II.

Construction Operation And Maintenance Plan

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Author : Theron Garth Heaton
language : en
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Release Date : 1987

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Dams And Appurtenant Works Maintenance Operations And Safety Guideline

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Author : United States. National Park Service. Engineering and Safety Services Division
language : en
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Release Date : 1983

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Construction And Operation Of A Facility To Receive Store And Dispose Of Byproduct Material Near Clive

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language : en
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Release Date : 1993

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Split Rock Uranium Mill Operation

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language : en
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Release Date : 1980

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The Oss And Ho Chi Minh

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Author : Dixee R. Bartholomew-Feis
language : en
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Release Date : 2006

The Oss And Ho Chi Minh written by Dixee R. Bartholomew-Feis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Some will be shocked to find out that the United States and Ho Chi Minh, our nemesis for much of the Vietnam War, were once allies. Indeed, during the last year of World War II, American spies in Indochina found themselves working closely with Ho Chi Minh and other anti-colonial factions-compelled by circumstances to fight together against the Japanese. Dixee Bartholomew-Feis reveals how this relationship emerged and operated and how it impacted Vietnam's struggle for independence. The men of General William Donovan's newly-formed Office of Strategic Services closely collaborated with communist groups in both Europe and Asia against the Axis enemies. In Vietnam, this meant that OSS officers worked with Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh, whose ultimate aim was to rid the region of all imperialist powers, not just the Japanese. Ho, for his part, did whatever he could to encourage the OSS's negative view of the French, who were desperate to regain their colony. Revealing details not previously known about their covert operations, Bartholomew-Feis chronicles the exploits of these allies as they developed their network of informants, sabotaged the Japanese occupation's infrastructure, conducted guerrilla operations, and searched for downed American fliers and Allied POWs. Although the OSS did not bring Ho Chi Minh to power, Bartholomew-Feis shows that its apparent support for the Viet Minh played a significant symbolic role in helping them fill the power vacuum left in the wake of Japan's surrender. Her study also hints that, had America continued to champion the anti-colonials and their quest for independence, rather than caving in to the French, we might have been spared our long and very lethal war in Vietnam. Based partly on interviews with surviving OSS agents who served in Vietnam, Bartholomew-Feis's engaging narrative and compelling insights speak to the yearnings of an oppressed people-and remind us that history does indeed make strange bedfellows.