Michael George Levy

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Michael George Levy (1925 – 4 June 2007) was a British and Canadian military officer. Levy was born in Bombay (now Mumbai, India) as the oldest of four siblings and raised in Shanghai, where he attended the Shanghai Public School for Boys. During the Second World War he was arrested by the Japanese and sent first to Pootung Internment Camp, and subsequently transferred to the Lunghua Civil Assembly Centre. He escaped from Lunghua with four other internees who made their way on foot and by junk to India. Once in India, he was recruited by the Special Operations Executive of the British Army, which offered him training in guerrilla warfare and espionage. They made him second in command of a Force 136 patrol liaison team with the wartime rank of captain. The team was dropped in the jungles of Malaya in July 1945. After the Japanese surrender in August 1945 they were "engaged in diffusing hostilities between the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) and collaborators as well as maintaining...

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