You're listening to the CyberWireriefing from the International Spy Museum.

I'm Mark Stout, the Museum's historian.

Here at the museum we get the most interesting authors including journalists, scholars,

former spies, and intelligence officers coming in to speak with our visitors and answer questions about their latest works dealing with espionage, intelligence, and other national security issues.

Please join me in listening to another of our selected hour-long author debriefings.

Thank you all for coming. I really appreciate it. And I've got to tell you one thing that you know being a this is my

one joke I've got so being an Army historian I had to subject you to PowerPoint

but I'm not much of a PowerPoint ranger, so bear with me here.

But what I wanted to talk to you about today, what wasn't necessarily what 101 did, but why I decided to write the book like I did.

And when I first started a researching detachment

101, I was just overwhelmed by this story. It's a fascinating story about what

so few people did in Burma and accomplished so much.

By the end of the war, they are credited officially with having killed 5,000 Japanese and maybe another 10,000.

But they also supplied all the intelligence, or at least 80% of the intelligence that the Air Force used to bomb Japanese targets in Burma.

By the end of the war in North Burma, the attachment 101 owned that area, and the Japanese really had no chance whatsoever of continuing

the war.

And I started reading some of the memoirs and what I found was that they really said a lot about

what they did.

But I, this photo in particular kind of fascinated me because this sums up detachment

101 to me. And if you look at it, it says in a coordinated land air and water, detachment

101 Air Can Field, took the city.

And then it mentions, OK, we have one guy here, another guy, and five guys.

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