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[StartQuote] That is a really interesting story Jerry, thanks for sharing it. It sounds similar to today's technology. Do you see a cable repair truck with weird antennas parked outside now? Were Crash boats also known as fastboats? I found the below reference to them and was wondering. [url]http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/70-42/70-424.html[/url] [green]The Office of Strategic Services never played a major role in the Pacific. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the overall commander of the Central and South Pacific theaters, limited OSS activities to an intelligence and liaison office in Honolulu. Donovan's envoys were even less successful in their negotiations with the Southwest Pacific Theater. MacArthur and his staff intended to conduct their own brand of special operations in the theater without any interference from a semi-autonomous organization that had its own command channel to Washington. Although the OSS periodically attempted to penetrate the theater, MacArthur was able to close his command to Donovan's agency until the last days of the war.[/green] [url]http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/oss/[/url] OSS Training in the National Parks and Service Abroad in World War II (commissioned by the National Park Service) Chapter 9, OSS in Action: The Pacific and the Far East, page 400 [green]Subsequently, from December 1944 to February 1945, first from Ceylon and later from Akyab, Burma, they were transported in Maritime Unit fastboats. These were similar to Navy PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats but shorter and without torpedo tubes. From these fastboats, the OSS teams were put ashore in their rubber boats and searched the shoreline and nearby villages in advance combat scouting groups before the main units arrived by landing craft.[/green] [EndQuote]
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