Download or read book Ledo Road Diary written by Stephen Cohen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There needed to be an overland route of supply from India to China in WWll. Someone had to build it. The job fell to General “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell, and he brought 15,000 black men from America to Ledo, Assam in India to do it. They fought disease, leeches, the monsoon and the Japanese to get it done. Under the command of Lewis Pick they turned jungle into road. This is the story of one Jefferson Goode , a jazz trumpet player, who writes the diary. And it is of his friend and community activist, Joey Carver. They are two boys from Philadelphia, who find themselves as roadbuilders, who fight the elements, the enemy and prejudice and segregation. Through the words and thoughts of Jefferson, this adventure unfolds.

Download or read book The Ledo Road written by Leslie Anders and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Corps of Engineers written by Karl Christian Dod and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers Engineer operations in support of the U.S. Army in the war against Japan. The story begins with the defense build-up in 1939 and ends with the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri on 2 September 1945. Geographically, Engineer operations extended from the Panama Canal to India and from Alaska to Australia, in actual or potential areas of conflict. The author has attempted not only to depict various types of Engineer operations but also to indicate how Engineer work helped implement Allied strategy. Included are discussions of the Engineer position in the command structure and a general account of both Engineer combat and service missions within a given theater. -- From the Preface.

Download or read book Personal Diary of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia 1943 1946 written by Earl Louis Mountbatten Mountbatten of Burma and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1988 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Diary of U S Participation in World War II written by Think and published by New York, International Business Machines Corporation. This book was released on 1950 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1946 under title: Diary of World War II.

Download or read book The Allied Resupply Effort in the China Burma India Theater During World War II written by Leo J. Daugherty III and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 secured for Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist forces what no amount of pleading had been able to produce: an influx of U.S. supplies. This volume explores the strategies of the Allies in China, Burma and India in World War II and the politically charged campaign waged in that theater. After an overview of the Allied situation in early 1942, the work presents the personal accounts of six individuals who served as part of the resupply effort in the CBI theater: Captain Edward Goodman, Captain David C. Hall, Staff Sergeant Robert Boehm, Corporal Anthony R. Silva, Corporal Alexander McVean and Tech Sergeant Kenneth R. Quigley. The service of African Americans in the CBI theatre is also discussed in detail. Appendices contain information on the organization of a motor transport truck regiment in Persia during World War II and an extract from a December 1944 log of an Air Jungle Rescue Unit in Burma.

Download or read book For Your Tomorrow written by Robert H. Farquharson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the causes of the Burma War, tells the story of its course, and reveals for the first time the surprisingly significant role Canada and Canadians played in it.

Download or read book United States Army in World War II written by United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military History and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Diary of World Events Being a Chronological Record of the Second World War Photographically Reproduced from the American and Foreign Newspaper Dispatches as Reported Day by Day written by John Appleton Haven Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Diary of World Events Being a Chronological Record of the Second World War Photographically Reproduced from the American and Foreign Newspapers Despatches as Reported Day by Day Including Maps Pictures Cartoons Anecdotes Official Messages Reports and Declarations and Congressional Acts written by John Appleton Haven Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Skies of Thunder written by Caroline Alexander and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author, a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War II In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air—meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on “the Hump,” the fearsome mountain barrier that defined the air route.They flew fickle, untested aircraft through monsoons and enemy fire, with inaccurate maps and only primitive navigation technology. The result was a litany of both deadly crashes and astonishing feats of survival. The most chaotic of all the war’s arenas, the China-Burma-India theater was further confused by the conflicting political interests of Roosevelt, Churchill and their demanding, nominal ally, Chiang Kai-shek. Caroline Alexander, who wrote the defining books on Shackleton’s Endurance and Bligh's Bounty, is brilliant at probing what it takes to survive extreme circumstances. She has unearthed obscure memoirs and long-ignored records to give us the pilots’ and soldiers’ eye views of flying and combat, as well as honest portraits of commanders like the celebrated “Vinegar Joe” Stillwell and Claire Lee Chennault. She assesses the real contributions of units like the Flying Tigers, Merrill’s Marauders, and the British Chindits, who pioneered new and unconventional forms of warfare. Decisions in this theater exposed the fault-lines between the Allies—America and Britain, Britain and India, and ultimately and most fatefully between America and China, as FDR pressed to help the Chinese nationalists in order to forge a bond with China after the war. A masterpiece of modern war history.