Behind the Burma Road Behind the Burma Road Behind the Burma Road is a 1963 book by William R. Peers and Dean Brelis that describes the American guerrilla warfare operations, including those of OSS Detachment 101, during the Burma Campaign in the China Burma India Theater during World War II. The book aims in part to be a primer for guerilla fighters. It lists Detachment 101's accomplishments as far as they were known at the time in terms of the effects of its attacks on and harassment of the Japanese during World War II. In their own terms, their score included "5,428 known enemy
USS U. S. Grant (AP-29) USS U. S. Grant (AP-29) USS "U. S. Grant" (AP-29) was a transport ship that saw service with the United States Navy in World War II. Originally a German ocean liner named Konig Wilhelm II, she was seized by the United States during the First World War and renamed "USS Madawaska" (ID-3011) in 1917 before being renamed USS "U. S. Grant" (AP-29) in 1922. "Konig Wilhelm II" was a steel-hulled screw steamer launched on 20 July 1907 at Stettin, Germany, by Vulcan Aktiengesellschaft. Built for the transatlantic passenger trade, "Konig Wilhelm II" operated between Hamburg, Germany, and Buenos Aires, Argentina,