Allison Thomas person
also: Allison, Major Allison Thomas, Thomas
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“There were only Tan and Phelan in the Viet Minh base. However, on May 16th, Major Allison Thomas received orders to commence work as Special Operations Team Number 13, codenamed DEER, D-E-E-R. His primary mission was interdict Japanese line…”
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would also be valuable assets to the war against Japan. Soon thereafter, Ho Chi Minh became an OSS agent. His name under the OSS secret agent name was Lucius, L-U-C-I-U-S. The OSS then sent in Deer Team, Deer Team commanded by Major Allison…
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base area to train them for operations against the Japanese. When Thomas and his team arrived in late July, they were greeted by a large banner proclaiming, Welcome to our American friends. With the tone of their work set, Deer Team went ab…
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Their training did not last long, however, with the bombing of the atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945, World War II ended. Upon receiving the news, the Americans of Deer Team and the Viet Minh laughed and drank long into the night. Thomas…
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for their own benefit. This Wikipedia entry on this guy goes on and it acknowledges the fact that he was part of the OSS deer team and that they worked directly for a major Allison Thomas and with Ho Chi Minh. And it says that…
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There were only Tan and Phelan in the Viet Minh base. However, on May 16th, Major Allison Thomas received orders to commence work as Special Operations Team Number 13, codenamed DEER, D-E-E-R. His primary mission was interdict Japanese line…
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His secondary mission was to work with guerrillas and targets of opportunity for the Air Force. Thomas's second-in-command, Lieutenant Rene DeForno, in addition to Thomas and DeForno, the DEAR team consisted of Private First Class Harry Poi…
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on his own. However, he accepted three French envoys to accompany them. July 16th, Thomas parachuted into Indochina with two American members, Pounier and Zelsky. They noticed that the Viet Minh guerrillas were armed with French rifles, a f…
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The Viet Minh were basically rude to the French. Thomas soon weighed up the odds and decided to return the French and work with Ho directly. While the uncertainty of the mission of Deer Team was continuing, the news of the first Viet Minh a…
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In the Deer team's first official report to Kunming, written only one day after his arrival, Thomas said flatly, forget the communist boogeyman. Viet Minh League are not communists. They stand for freedom and reform from the French harshnes…
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Although instructed to sit tight until further orders on August 16th, the Deer Team and the Vietnamese American force left Tan Tre to attack the Japanese at Thai Nguyen, which was the first town to be freed under enemy hands. The relationsh…
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French services in China had received information that the Viet Minh intended to launch an attack on a Japanese position in order to give the U.S. a pretext for helping them. During the battle, Thomas Allison was not with his deer team. He …