American OSS Team Parachutes into Indochina
July 16, 1945
A seven-man team from the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) special operations forces parachutes from a C-47 into the tiny village of Kimlung, in a remote and mountainous part of northwestern Indochina. Codenamed “Deer Team,” the men are led by Major Allison K. Thomas. (Arthur J. Dommen, The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam1