No Surrender in Burma
Fred C GoodeFred Goode was a member of a Special Forces Unit, Special Service Detachment II, whose role in 1941 was to support Chiang Kai-Shek's Chinese Army fighting the Japanese in China. Their role was to teach weapon
- Author
- Fred C Goode
- Publisher
- Pen and Sword
- Price
- £25
- Published
- 2015
No Surrender in Burma by Fred C Goode
Fred Goode was a member of a Special Forces Unit, Special Service Detachment II, whose role in 1941 was to support Chiang Kai-Shek’s Chinese Army fighting the Japanese in China. Their role was to teach weapon training, demolitions and guerrilla tactics to the Chinese soldiers.
However the Japanese advance into Burma resulted in a change of role, and the force moved into Burma tasked with destroying airfields and military bases to deny them to the Japanese. Thwarted by the speed of the Japanese advance, Goode’s force were cut off before they reached the river Irrawaddy. They split up into four smaller groups and made for either Yunan in China or India.
After negotiating some 2000 miles of inhospitable jungle and only 20 miles from India Goode was betrayed to the Japanese. He was tortured and then locked up in Rangoon’s infamous Central Jail until the end of the war. This is a story of endurance and survival against the odds. Of the fifty men in Goode’s unit only eight survived the war.
ISBN 1473824781. Pen & Sword. £25.