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760. Harold Miller - 2010-03-01 17:20:58 |
I am looking for information on a Dr. Perry or Dr. Perry Feyette who served in the CBI theater between 1943 to 1953. I purchased a typewriter which may have belonged to the doctor and was looking for some background information for my collection. Thank you.
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759. Gerry Brown - 2010-02-24 17:40:15 |
My father, Beecher Olive, served In the 3438 ORD M.A.M CO in India during WWII around 1942. Is there anyone on here who may remember him???
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758. T/5 Charles Glinski - 2010-02-21 15:10:43 |
Little is known of the vital contribution made by the various railway operating battalions (ROBs) to the successful defeat of Axis forces in World War II. This is particularly true of the 4 or 5 ROBs that operated in the "forgotten theater" known as China-Burma-India theater of operations. When there is a program on World War II, it is usually devoted to Europe or the Pacific, one would agree.
Railway operating battalions were a necessary means of moving ever-increasing tons of war materials and supplies expeditiously and efficiently to war fronts.
In March of 1944, this 19 year old and T/5 Dominic Muttillo from Cleveland, Ohio, were assigned as military Stationmasters to a railway station in Dikum, Upper Assam, India on the Dibru-Sadiya (D-S) railway. It extended from Dibrugarh to Ledo. Our primary duty was to expedite train movements with their flow of war materials, goods and supplies efficiently.
The authority for train movements was under our control
as Stationmasters and extended only from station to station. A primary means of train movement was utilization of token machines between stations.
Our headquarters in Tinsukia was a major rail head that serviced not only ground troops in Burma but also airbases in Ledo and Chabua. Chabua was located less than a quarter mile behind our newly assigned station at Dikum in the center of a large tea plantation.
The sidetrack leading to this huge U.S. air base from our
station in Dikum was often filled with boxcars loaded with war materials and supplies to be flown over THE HUMP to our Chinese ally by C46 and C47 cargo planes. T/5 Muttillo and I were armed with M-1 carbines since we were in a war zone. We guarded against pilferage, sabotage and potential Japanese infiltrators. For the first six months, we lived in a thatched roof mud hut with dirt floor and bamboo sides plastered with what appeared to be buffalo dung.
Several times a month, Pvt. Tom Bancroft of Youngstown, Ohio dropped off food supplies. This consisted mainly of canned goods such as spam, bully beef, C and K rations. We boiled water then contained it in a large lister bag. I learned early about hygiene, particularly how to use hot water, soap, and rinse thoroughly utensils. This I learned the hard way after a bout with severe dysentery.
Much to our delight a new basha was built for us with a cement slab floor and windows, sometime during the summer of
1944. After barely two months on assignment at Dikum I contracted yellow jaundice and spent nearly three months being treated in a bamboo field hospital. A replacement from headquarter company in Tinsukia filled in nicely while I was in the hospital.
I recuperated for two wonderful weeks at a rest camp in the beautiful and refreshing hills of Shillong. On my first morning there we had oatmeal for breakfast. Unfortunately, hundreds of squirming little maggots shared this unpleasant experience. However, happiness was no more maggots, no tropical humidity, and no mosquitos.
Meanwhile, earlier in March of 1944, one hundred thousand Japanese invaded India at Kohima and Imphal while nearly severing the Bengal-Assam railway (B&A) south of our station. Fortunately, our combined U.S. and allied forces drove them back into Burma while inflicting heavy losses from which the Japanese never recovered.
All in all, in my opinion, the combined efforts of the 748th ROB and other railway operating battalions contributed greatly to our success in defeating the Japanese in Burma, and enemy forces everywhere the ROB functioned.
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757. Michael Dailey - 2010-02-18 13:54:20 |
| If you do have information about the Fort Pitt C.B.I.-Basha group, please contact me via email; . Thank you! |
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756. Michael Dailey - 2010-02-18 13:53:07 |
| Hello. I am attempting to find someone that is connected to the Fort Pitt C.B.I.-Basha group. Does anyone have a connection point to that group? Thank you. |
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755. Tim Day - 2010-02-16 16:53:40 |
| My father was on one of the 1st C-47s’ to fly into Myitkyina. He was loadmaster, can’t remember what they flew in but he said when they took off the Japs fired knee morters at them. In other action, he had also carried mules, Chinese soldiers, O.S.S. men, and gasoline to the "filling stations" for the P-51s’. He had different pilots, which doesn’t seem consistant with the ’organizataional’ charts I’ve seen for the 1st Combat Cargo. He was at Kunming and Dumdum. He may have started out with the 1st Air Commandos, sounds more like the "ops" he described to me. He also flew officiers to the Jap surrender of the CBI, said it was drizzling rain. His name was Ted Day E-6 from Denver Colorado. |
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754. Karol Alexander - 2010-02-14 13:46:00 |
Both my biological father Robert B. Alexander(Capt USAAC)(RIP April 1952)and my stepfather Barton P. Jenks (LT 468 Truck Co ?)served in the CBI Theatre as did an uncle James Keith Alexander (Flying Tigers). I am amazed at the heart felt emotion I have felt while researching information and hopefully contacts for my stepfather -I know he is looking for information on Colonel Edward Telford and a Sgt Sullivan from Boston - as a Viet Vet I salute those of you served Thank you.
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753. Gene Reynolds - 2010-02-13 16:50:38 |
I am looking for anyone who served on the Ledo Road that knew my dad Robert Reynolds, Piedmont, Mo. He is still alive (88 years old) and would like to make contact with any one who went through the experiences that he did. Thanking you in advance for your services. His son, Gene Reynolds
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752. Tobias Henschel - 2010-02-06 20:12:34 |
Hi,
My name is Tobi i�m from Germany...
i have got a ring with cbi logo + 1944 on it from my
grandfather.
i now he was in usa in captivity that�s all
nobody of my family nows anything about that time .
The name of my Grandfather is Fritz Henschel.
i would be happy to get any informations.
thanks and sorry for my bad english. ;-)
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751. Mary Greene - 2010-02-02 21:18:10 |
Looking for anyone who might have known my dad, Luther Williams. All I know for sure is that he served in the CBI and he was a Tec 4. He would say very little about it.
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