Fort Hertz - Wikipedia
网页Fort Hertz was a remote British Military outpost in northeastern Burma in the district of Putao in what is now the Kachin State near the present town of Putao. It was named after William Axel Hertz.
Burma campaign (1942–1943) - Wikipedia
网页The Burma campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II took place over four years from 1942 to 1945. During the first year of the campaign, the Imperial Japanese Army with aid from Burmese insurgents had driven British forces and Chinese forces out of Burma, and occupied most of the country. From May to December 1942, most active ...
A Special Forces Model - ARSOF History
网页On 17 May 1944, a combined Allied force was poised to deliver Myitkyina, the prize of Lieutenant General (LTG) Joseph W. Stilwell’s brilliant three-month north Burma campaign. The night before, indigenous Kachin guerrillas of Detachment 101 of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), had led Merrill’s Marauders [5307th Composite Unit ...
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网页On the Irrawaddy headwaters in northeast Burma the Allies had a base at Fort Hertz, in wild country which the Japanese had never been able to conquer. Here, Gurkha and Kachin levies from the...
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网页Fort Hertz was a remote British Military outpost in northeastern Burma in the district of Putao in what is now the Kachin State near the present town of Putao. It was named after William Axel Hertz. Hertz led the first expeditions into the far north of Burma in 1888, was responsible for the 1912...
网页Off to Burma On the second of October, we left our headquarters for Fort Hertz [last Allied bastion remaining in Burma]. The weather was not too good, but by flying between, around, under, and over the clouds—we could not take a chance on entering any of them for they might have had a rock
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网页2017年9月29日 · Bounded by the Kumaon range and the Yunnan border, Fort Hertz was a little more than a village, conspicuous only by the absence of a fort and sat in a long, green beautiful plain in the Putao Valley in extreme northern Burma.
Burma campaign (1942–1943) - Wikiwand
网页Fort Hertz. In mid-1942, a small reconnaissance party was parachuted into the Myitkyina area, to investigate Myitkyina and the outpost at Fort Hertz in the far north of Burma, which had been cut off from India. Fort Hertz was found to be still in Allied hands.
The Failures of Detachment 101 - ARSOF History
网页In late 1942, the only Allied controlled area was the small outpost of Fort Hertz (now Putao) in northern Burma. In late December 1942, a small group of Detachment 101 personnel moved to Fort Hertz to conduct what would later be named Operation FORWARD. From here, they moved to Sumprabum, near Japanese lines.
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网页2016年6月29日 · These demolitions prevented the Japanese from ever occupying all of northern Burma. Retaining Fort Hertz, modern day Putao, which is approximately 57 miles north of Sumprabum, meant the Allies had an airstrip in Burma.
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