A Thousand Places Left Behind Audiobook Libro.fm

Born and raised in Mississippi Peter K Lutken Jr 19202014 joined the army in 1941 and was assigned to the Coast Artillery Originally sent to India to guard airfields he was reassigned to the British V Force then the American OSS Office of Strategic Services and precursor to the CIA after he volunteered for reconnaissance missions behind Japanese lines Skills he had learned as a boy in the backwoods and swamps around the Pearl River stood him in good stead and by the end of the war he attained the rank of major commanding an entire battalion of ethnic Kachins and other local people of northern Burma now called Myanmar