0:00 - "Essential element of information" (EEI) fundamentals of acquiring information

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Keywords: "five W's"; fundamentals; Military Intelligence Service Language School; precision

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1:43 - Flight into Kunming, China

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Keywords: "The Hump"; ammunition; Burma; C-46 cargo plane; campaign; Christmas Eve; fuel; Grant Hirabayashi; Kunming, China; prop plane; war

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2:59 - Assignment to Royal Air Force -- Run-in with British general

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Keywords: "limey"; British general; Burma; court marshall; enemy; Grant Hirabayashi; interrogation; jungle warfare; New Delhi; officier; rank; rear echelon; reassignment; Royal Air Force (RAF); salute; sir; sniper; transfer; translation

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5:32 - Transfer to China / Assignment to Chinese prison camp

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Keywords: airplane; Akiji Yoshimura; atomic bomb; Chiang Kai-shek; Chinese language; Chinese prison camp; Chungking, China; Colusa, California; General Stillwell; headquarters; hot spring; interrogation; Japanese POWs; Kunming, China; lieutenant; Manchuria; Merrill's Marauders; mistress; prisoner; report; resort; Sino-Japanese War; World War II

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7:33 - Assignment to unit in Kaiyuan, China -- Working with aerial photographs

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Keywords: aerial photograph; American; assignment; building; Chinese; communication; communication battalion; descent; discrimination; document; education; equipment; G.I.; intelligence; interrogation; Japanese; Kaiyaun, China; Kunming, China; master sergeant; Nisei; prisoner; private first class; rear echelon; restaurant; Sansei; signal battalion; soldier; tech sergeant; war

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9:41 - Introduction to the Office of Secret Services

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Keywords: .32 caliber; .45 caliber; ammunition; assignment; automatic; bail; black paste; Burma; carbine; China; confidentiality; currency printing; England; film can; Legion of Merit; master sergeant; Merrill's Marauders; occupation currency; Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.); opium; order; pistol; Remington; revolver; school; Smith & Wesson; transfer; unit

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11:59 - Assignments and espionage in the Office of Secret Service

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Keywords: alphabet; bomb; Chinese characters; Chinese National Army; Chinese soldier; Chungking, China; code word; communication; convoy; decode; demolition; dictionary; enemy; espionage; generator; headquarters; Kunming, China; map; message; numerals; P-38; P-51; railroad; receiver; report; sabotage; signal; strafe; telegraphic code; trail; transmitter; truck

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15:22 - Confidentiality of Office of Secret Service assignments-- Chinese National Army guerilla forces

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Keywords: assignment; bombing; bridge; capture; Chinese National Army; citation; communist; confidentiality; enemy; execution; guerilla forces; information; mission; Ranger Hall of Fame; sabotage; saboteur

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16:50 - Reunion for American and Chinese World War II veterans

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Keywords: Chiang Kai-shek; Chinese; communist; documents; flag; guerilla forces; guerilla war; Labor Day; march; Merrill's Marauders; museum; Office of Strategic Services (OSS); pictures; Ranger Hall of Fame; reunion,Indianapolis, Indiana; service; Stillwell Museum

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19:47 - Difficulty in keeping missions with the OSS a secret

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Keywords: alias; assassination; confidentiality; Counterintelligence Corps (CIC); court order; damage; detail; duty; federal offense; impersonation; information; Office of Strategic Services (OSS); officer; order; war; wire tap

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21:51 - Assignment to French Indochina

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Keywords: assignment; battalion; border; Burma; campaign; China; Chinese soldiers; company; confiscation; food; French Indochina; isolation; Japanese soldiers; kitchen; L-5 liaison plane; mail; occupation currency; occupied area; Officer Candidate School (OCS); platoon; radio; ration; rotation; service troop; Shanghai; village; war

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24:20 - Paying Chinese villagers for bringing in Japanese POWs

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Keywords: chief; Chinese Nationalist Army; cooperation; interrogation; Japanese soldiers; mayor; money; notice; POW; reward; soldier; stretcher; village; war; Yuan

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25:53 - Interrogation tactics

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Keywords: American soldiers; China; Chinese officer; cigarette; Colonel Richard Sakakida; date of birth; food; Geneva Convention; hunger; information; interrogation; Japanese Army; Japanese soldiers; name; objective; Office of Strategic Services (OSS); officer; POW; prisoner; question; rank; serial number; torture

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