Pows of Japanese, Rescued: General J. M. Wainwright

The material in this book, originally titled What the OSS did for Hal Leith and What Hal did for the OSS was extracted from my personal diary. I kept this diary during an Office of Strategic Services (OSS) special mission, the Cardinal Mission. Our mission/goal was to extract high-ranking officers and all allied POWs from remote POW camps situated in Mukden and Hsian, Manchuria.

Due to repeated urgings of many still-surviving former POWs and attendees at periodic POW Reunions, I have written this story to the best of my memory and from written records and photographs.