A 1942 US expedition into Tibet
The world’s history is fascinating. With the Internet and blogs, learning about the past no longer requires sitting through a history class. Here is a fascinating story about two US military officers who entered Tibet in 1942 trying to find ways to send supplies to China.
The history goes like this…
In the early years of World War II, the US wanted to send supplies to the Nationalist China led by Chiang Kai-shek. At that time, China was at war with Japan. The direct route through Burma was blocked by the Japanese, so in 1942, the OSS (the US precursor to the CIA) sent two US officers Tolstoy and Dolan to explore whether or not a supply route can be formed via India (i.e., from India to Tibet, and from Tibet to China).