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Operation Thursday: Birth of the Air Commandos

by Herbert A. Mason

Format:  Quality Paperback
Published:  June 2004
Category:  Military - World War II
Publisher:  University Press of the Pacific
Pages:  56

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A bold, unconventional use of American air power to support British ground troops in Burma, Operation THURSDAY marked a critical development in the history of modern warfare. On March 5-6, 1944, the Allies conducted an air invasion of Burma, in an attempt to push back the Japanese in the China-Burma-India Theater and reestablish the land route between India and China. U.S. airmen formed a special operations unit -the 1st Air Commando Group- to transport troops to jungle locations and resupply them, often in

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