During WWII, my father - Tom Frost - served as an Intelligence Officer in India and Burma (1944 & 1945) with the XVIth Army fighting against the Japanese. In September 1945, he was posted to Indochina (Operation Masterdom) to help take the surrender of 70,000 Japanese troops. He even commanded some Japanese troops when defending Saigon from Ho Chi Min’s fighters - who had been armed and trained by the Americans. He then moved to the Dutch Celebes to help deal with a mutiny of Dutch troops: | 
