Further Reading

The SOE files on the Chinese Canadian Force 136 recruits are held by the UK National Archives, and digital copies are available in Gale’s Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence database. Resources like photographs, veterans’ stories, and oral history interviews are also available through the Canadian Encyclopedia, The Memory Project, and the Chinese Canadian Military Museum. Operation Oblivion was the subject of a 2012 National Film Board documentary. 

For an academic treatment of the Force 136 Canadians, consult Roy MacLaren’s Canadians Behind Enemy Lines (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004). For a longer time horizon, consider Lisa Rose Mar’s Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada’s Exclusion Era, 1885-1945 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010).