China Burma India Theater (CBI)

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Elmo Espree was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana in September 1921. His family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1923...
Berle Wheeler was sent to Camp Robinson, Arkansas for 13 weeks of boot camp. He was then sent to Camp Gordon in Augusta...
Cleveland Peterson was born in Baudette, Minnesota in 1922 and grew up there. Baudette is on the Canadian border in...
George C. Ward had his basic training at Fort Custer in Michigan [Annotator’s Note: he was drafted into the US Army in...
George Rudloff enlisted in December 1942 in the Enlisted Reserve Corps as a college student. In April 1943, a group of...
Roy H. Matsumoto went to Minnesota after he volunteered for the Army. [Annotator's Note: Matsumoto volunteered for the...
Gus Gikas considered enlistment to be good for him. Being an amateur radio operator, Gikas could fix just about any...
Perry Garten was drafted and sent to Fort Leavenworth for processing. He was then shipped to Bowman Field near...
Thomas Kiyoshi Tsubota trained at Schofield Barracks [Annotator's Note: in Honolulu, Hawaii] as a member of the 298th...
Howard Anderson was born in December 1922 in North Dakota. He grew up on a farm. His father was a farmer. The family...
[Annotator's Note: There is a lot of background noise in this interview.] Edith Vancheri was born in February 1923 in...
While in India, Grant Jiro Hirabayashi worked as a translator for the British Air Force after being in Burma [Annotator...
Roy H. Matsumoto was successful in his covert work against the communists [Annotator's Note: he had been called into...
Flying to Japan was not easy because so much of China was under Japanese control. All of the missions Howard Anderson...
Herbert Clyde Saylor [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner with the 436th Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group, 10th...
Raymond Kaiser says it was not much of a war [Annotator's Note: in the China, Burma, India Theater]; not like in Europe...
Thomas Kiyoshi Tsubota [Annotator's Note: with Merrill's Marauders, the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional)] walked...
Elmo Espree's troop ship sailed from Australia for the Bay of Bengal in India. In India, Espree went through the Ganges...
While in Calcutta, George Rudloff developed physical activities in which the American soldiers could participate. There...
After Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Charles Poston...
Frank R. Burnside [Annotator's Note: as a pilot in India with the 1st Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), 20th Air Force...
Dr. Albert Habeeb was assigned as a flight surgeon in the China-Burma-India Theater and stationed in Gaya, India with...
Lawrence Eustis was commander of the 11th Photo Lab which was attached to the 40th Bombardment Group which flew B-29s [...
Carl Constein reported to Reno [Annotator’s Note: Reno, Nevada] to complete transition training on a C-46 [Annotator’s...
Wesley Fronk was a courier for a Lieutenant Colonel who was a liaison to the British. He learned administrative duties...
Herbert Gross was born in March 1917. He served in the 375th Squadron of the 308th Heavy Bomb Group of the Fourteenth...
After Calvin F. Bannon completed flight school and received his commission in Texas, he was sent to Miami Beach [...
Perry Garten got along well with the Chindits. They were professional and spoke English. The Gurkhas had a unique knife...
Robert Rineer was born in May 1922 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He grew up with a twin brother and two sisters. His...
Basic training for Robert Lippman was in Miami Beach, Florida. He learned to salute, and dress right. He thinks he went...
Recalling when his aircraft was hit over Tunis, Tunisia, Alvin Callender said he was in combat with German Focke-Wulf...
Frederick Moore's scariest experience was flying a green airplane low over a green jungle and looking up to see flashes...
David K. Hayward did not continue flying after the war. He did fly once while working for Texaco [Annotator's Note:...
The war made Harold Daniel Snyder a man. His time in the Army Air Corps was as good as two years in college. He learned...
The 792nd Military Police Battalion was subdivided and Roy Uthes was assigned to the 209th Engineer Combat Battalion [...
The Battle at Walawbum [Annotator's Note: Tanai, Kachin, Burma; now Myanmar, in March 1944] was Robert Lippman's first...

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