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FATEHPUR SIKRI, the abandoned Mughal capital city of palaces, is still in an excellent state ofpreservation although it dates back to the 16th century. Photo by Government of India TouristOffice.

OLD RED FORT at Delhi is one of the interesting historical sights of this area. Photo by Gov-ernment of India Tourist Office.

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CBIer for President• Your July issue will goto press before the Republi.can National Convention, Irealize, but I'd be willing towager there will be a CBIveteran as the G.O.P. can.didate for president of theUnited States. I'm referring,of course, to U.S. SenatorBarry Goldwater of Arizona.As George H. :MacJ\Iurraypointed out in your Aprilissue, Senator Goldwaterwas chief pilot of the Cres.cent and Fireball runs intoChabua and Kharagpur,with Karachi as home basein India" He was also overthe Hump into China. You'llbe hearing a 10!tabout thisfamous CBler in the monthsto come,.

HARLAN MARDELL,Phoenix, Ariz.

Member of 780th• Served in ,the CBI withthe 780th Engineer Pewol.e,um Distribution Company.

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Ex-CEI ROUNDUP, established 1946, is a remInlscin[. magazinepublished monthly except AUGUST and SEPTEME~R at 117South Third Street. Laurens. Iowa, by and for for~r membersof U. S. Units stationed in the China-Burma-Indla Theater dur-ing World War II. Ex-CBI Roundup is the official publicationof the China-Burma-India Veterans Association.

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letter FROM The Editor ...

• Once again we've finished a year-it's time for Ex.CBI Roundup's annual "vacation." As most regularsubscribers know, there will be no issues publishedfor August or September-the next issue to appear willbe dated October. Don't forget to keep sending mater.ial, however, because we want to have plenty of it onhand when publication is resumed in the fall.

• Cover picture shows troops of C Company, 1st Bat.talion of the 475th Regiment, using a log for protec.tion as they spearhead attack from high ground at LoiKang, Burma, while the enemy continues firing fromacross ravine. U. S. Army photo from Albert T. Willis Jr.

• There's still time to make that fabulous trip toIndia, leaving New York Oct. 2 with the Ex.CEI Round.up "Return to India" group-but not much time~ Finalarrangements must be made right away. so please gein touch with us immediately. Don't forge, hL '_ asmall group and we'll have loads of fun; i'_ a op.portunity you've been waiting for and you m'g aswell go while you're able to enjoy it. Let's no \'a;- '0"some other time" to see India again~

• The CBI reunion is just around the corner ... meeyour friends in Philadelphia August 5, 6, 7 and . .-\top-notch program has been planned.

\\7 ATER wheel used for power,near Kweilin, China. Photo byAlbert T. \X'ilIis, Jr.

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To The Editors _

STRE~T SCENE in Shanghai, China. Photo by Henry A. Pior-kowskI.

Clarkson Stelle, 53. At thetime of his death he waspreparing himself at the?pace Sciences LaboratoryIn Berkeley as the first di-p 1a mat specializing inspace travel and its effecton international affairs.Born in Peking of mission-ary parents, schooled atAmherst, Peking's Collegeof Chinese Studies, Univer-sity of Chicago (Ph.D. '38),and a Rockefeller Founda-tion Fellow at HarvardStelle served with OSS andthe Army in World War IIwinning honors for China~

Burma-India service. Hehad filled key roles in theState Department sin c e1946. His wife and a sonsurvive.

RAY KIRKPATRICKSan Francisco, Cal.

Looking for CBIers• Am located in 3733, RCABuilding, Rockefeller Cen-ter' New York City. Wouldappreciate any of myoIdCBI friends of long agostopping by. Would be par.ticularly interested in locat-ing three very fine noncomswho were with me at Ram-garh-Richard Jones, HenrySchaefer, and Jessie Allen.Richard was from Dallas,Henry from WashingtonD.C., and Jessie from Ala~bama.

EDWIN B. GREEN,New York, N.Y.

Return to India• Yau shQuld have ahorde of applications forthe expedWon ,to. India. Thedistance is so great fromhere and .gIY annual leavecomes so late that I could-n't make it this year. Butthe. rei s a posstbility Ican visit there next year-although it would be moreenjoyable to go with otherexies. Keep up the goodwork.

GEO. CHRISTOPHER,Melbourne, Australia

RUINS of Burmese temple at Namhkam, taken from laps.U.S. Army photo from Albert T. Willis, Jr.

Parade Coordinator• The Delaware Va 11e yBasha would like to in.tro-duce William J. Lederer,Esq., who is to be our PujaParade Coordinator. Bill isa native Philadelphian anda graduate of LaSalle Col--lege and Temple UniversityLaw School. He served inthe CBI Theater from 1944to 1946, being stationed inLed 0 with HeadquartersCompany, and had chargeof .an .educational program.ThIS Involved 2,000 allied'forces as students withclasses being conducted upand down the Ledo Roadunder the title of "FoxholeUniversity." Bill has hadmany importan.t positionsand offices in addition topraoticing law. He is atpresent chairman of theV:eterans Advisory Commis-sIOn and currently has thehonor of being Commanderof the United VeteransC0.u n <: i 1 of PhiladelphiawhIch IS comprised of 27veterans organizations.

BERTHA URENSON,Philadelphia, Pa.

Charles Clarkson Stelle• The San Francisco NewsCall Bulletin recently car.ried an itemabaut thedeath of a real "aId Chinahand," China-born disarm-arment negotiator Charles

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Kweilin, China. Photo by Alben T.near

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all with towers reaching upto 30 feet. Juggernaut's caris bigger than the others,having 16 wheels where theothers have 12. The carsare broken up every yearaLter the festival so the"sacred" wood can be soldto the people. When Jug-gernaut's car comes for-ward, the people sweep thestreets in front of him witha jeweled broom. The pil-grims, acting as humanhorses, pull the car, andthe,' had be t be carefulto • draw Jug g ern autstraight down the street. Ifhis car happens to brushagainst a building, Jugger-naut is too holy to go in re-verse. The house movesback, not Juggernaut. Sothere could be some risk inbuilding in the festivalarea. As the sacred carmoves through the multi-tude, the crowd tosses blos-soms and ample rupe.esaboard. Men tramp, chilodren cry, and women faint.If I had an anna for every-one who has ever bent hisknee to Juggernaut, I'd bea long way on the road tobecoming at least a lord ofthis ,temporal world.

BOYD SINCLAIR,Austin, Tex.

MAIN STREET of ,illa"e near Kweilin, China, with young.ster in foreground lUling lhe photographer. Photo by AlbertT. Willis Jr.

was made at Puri, near Cal-cutta. The god Juggernaut,his brother idol Balaramaand sister icon Subhadra,have been worshipped forcountless centuries. Hun-dreds of thousands of de-vout Hindus and billions ofmosquitos, who are willingto bite Hindus as well asany other sect, take in thecar festival. As the pictureillustrates, the car is ahouse or temple on wheels.There are a number ofthese cars at the festival,

RIVER BOATSWillis, Jr.

Juggernaut• I refer to the pictureyou published on page 2of the June 1964 isue, cap-tioned: "This picture, fromcollection submit ted byWilliam S. Johnson, i smarked 'Juggernaut.' Whocan tell us the whole sto-ry?" This picture shows the.car of Juggernaut, Jagan-nath, or Jagannatha, whichin Hindu means "Lord ofthe World," this idol beingone form of the diety Vish-nu, the second god of theHindu triad, called "ThePreserver." Among manyother avatars, or incarna-tions, besides Juggernautare Rama and Krishna.During a yearly festival,Juggernaut is drawn uponthe car, at one ,time adorn-ed with what Westernersgenerally would term "ob-scene" paintings, and itmay still be so de.corated.In the past, devotees of thegod are supposed to havethrown themselves underthe wheels of the car to becrushed. Our English noun"juggernaut," usually notcapitalized, means an ob-ject or belief calling forblind devotion or ruthlesssacrifice and has also beenused to refer to a powerfuland victorious army. TheEnglish transitive v e r b"juggernaut" mea n s tocrush. The picture doubtless

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~eunion Just Around the Corner

Philly Awaits CB ersAlthough the 1964 CBI Reunion at

Philadelphia, Pa., is only a few days off,CBIers who were late in making up their-minds can still take advantage of thefine program and good fellowship offered.

The 17th annual event will open Wed-nesday, August 5, at the air-conditionedSheraton Hotel with registration from 2to 9 p.m. and with the Delaware ValleyHost Cocktail Party at 8:30.

There will be a full program from thenthrough Saturday, August 8, as outlinedin the June issue of Ex-CBI Roundup.Business sessions will be at 9:30 a.m.Thursday, 10 a.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Sat.urday. There will be a fashion show forthe women at 11 a.m. Thursday, and aThursday afternoon visit to the Long.wood Gardens with dinner at the LogCabin Inn. Various places of historicalinterest will be visited Friday afternoon,and this will be followed by the PujaParade at 6:30 p.m., a smorgasbord din.

ner at 7:30 and the Puja Ball at 9. PastCommanders' Luncheon will be at 1 p.m.Saturday. a visit to Aquarama is set for2:30 and the Commander's Night Ban.quet will begin at 7:30. There will be aseparate banquet for the younger set.

Registration rates for the entire eventare $26 per adult, $15 for each teenagerand $10 for each child 12 or under. CBlersmay register in advance by writingJames S. Meyers, 5005 N. Sydenham St.,Philadelphia, Pa. 19141.

Hotel reservations shou;d be sent toReservation Office, Sheraton Hotel, 1725Pennsylvania Boulevard, Philadelphia 3,Pa. Rates are $8 for single rooms, $12 fordouble rooms (double bed) for two per.sons, and $12 for double rooms (twinbeds) for two persons. Suites (parlor,bedroom and two baths) for two personsare $35, $42 and $45. Rollaway beds a.re$3 extra. The hotel is completely air.con.ditioned, and there is television in everyroom.

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THIS SPECIAL ISSUE is one of a series of piet re ta~ by the -th Photo Tech. Sq. to be pre-sented in Ex-CBI Roundup over a period of everal monUl- The Ground Glass was a voluntaryeffort to give members of the squadron memento of their to r of duty in the China-Burma-India Theater. These layouts used through coune y of Gordon mock and \X'm. S. Johnson.

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Three Bitter Years of War

r• Seagrave's Quie CourageBy BRIG. GEN. ROTHWELL M. BROWN

I first met Dr. Seagrave and his nursesin Shweb~, Burma in May of 1942. Atthat time the British were in full retreatinto India through Imphal and the Chin-ese, who had been cut off from returninginto China proper, were retreating intoAssam through northern Burma.

General Stilwell had gathered aroundhim his small AmeI1ican staff which hadbeen directing rthe efforts of the Chinesein Burma preparing ,to retreat to India.The group included Doctor Seagrave andhis nurses, I flew into Shwebe to try topersuade General Stilwell to fly out toIndia and found that the General wasdetermined to march out on foot. I thendid my best to talk Dr. Seagrave intoletting his nurses fly out but he was de-termined that if General Stilwell was go-

Brig. Gen. Rothwell H. Brown of IF/hite Stone,Va., a member of the China-Burma-India Vet.erans Association, was recently elected chairmanof the American Medical Center for Burma. Hesucceeds Ambassador David M. Key, who hasmoved to the rVirgin Islands.

This statement by General Brown is illregard to the period in which he was associ.ated with the "Burma Surgeon," Dr. GordonS. SeagratJe.

ing to walk out so would he and hisnurses. This was really fortunate for agreat many of the Americans who madethe trip would not have made it withoutthe assistance of Doc and his nurses. Forseveral wee,ks I spent every day flyingdown over their route dropping themfood and supplies until we could nolonger reach them from the airfield inAssam.

As soon as Dr. Seagrave and his nursesarrived in Imphal they were sent directlyto Ramgarh in India. Here Dr. Seagraveand his nurses set up the first hospitalto take care of the Chinese soldiers whowere beginning to be flown to Ramgarhfrom Assam aLter their terrible struggleacross the mountains of northern Burma.These Chinese soldiers were in terriblecondition, suffering from malaria andmalnutrition .and most of them werecovered with awful sores from leechbites. If it had not been for Dr. Seagraveand his nurses thousands of theSe youngChinese soldiers would have died and itwould have been almost impossible tohave created what became the ChineseArmy in India. This is the Chinese Armythat went back and recaptured all ofnorthern Burma from the Japanese.

During the time that Dr. Seagrave wasin Ramgarh my wife, who was ,then theChief Nurse of the U.S. Army 48th Evac-ua;tion Hospital also just being set upin Ramgarh, Ibecame the friend andcounsellor of the nurses in the SeagraveHospital. She came to know all of thenurses very closely and was of muchassistance to them ,in helping them ad-just to American customs, Ameri:can med-ical supplies and American nursingtechniques. And when they found thatthey could play the American game ofbaseball better than she could the icewas really broken and their shyness andreserve dropped away. This friendshipcontinued when rthe ,two hospitals werelocated close togethe,r again for manymonths after the capture of Myitkyina.And the culminaJtion of this relationshipwas at Christmas time in 1944 when mywife came forward to Bhamo from Myit-kyina during Christmas week with greatboxes of gifts which she had had sentout from her church in Rhode Island. Itwas a strange yet beautiful Christmaspanty that was finally held high on theside of a bleak mountain about halfwaybetween Bhamo and Namhkwa just be,-hind the Chinese forward positions. Butthe spirit of Christmas was never betterexemplified ,than by the simple gifts of

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-------------------Dr. Seagrave'sQuietCouragesoap and 'combs and ungents dear to fact that I had known a very remarkable

women the world over that had come all man,the way from America to this far away In January 1944 I went back into Bur.spot still dominated Iby Jap artillery. rna as the Commanding Officer of the

I next met Dr. Seagrave in February of First Provisional Tank Group (Chinese.1943 when I came out of Burma after a American) composed of American stafftwo months re.connaissance trip suffer. officers, American maintenance person.ing from a severe attack of malaria. nel and two Chinese tank battalions.-We~rovidentially for me, Dr. Seagrave had found that Dr. Seagrave and his nursesJust been sent back to Assam by General had established a forward hospital justS~ilwell and was able to give me immedi. beyond Shingbwiyang. From Januaryate treatment for malaria. Without this 1944 until May of 1945 Dr. Seagrave andassistance it ,is extremely doubtful that I were never more than a few thousandI would be alive, since there was no yards apart and ne\'er more than a fewfacility available in the area at that thousand yards from the forward Jap.time for proper treatment of malaria, anese po itions. During thi period Dr.and Dr, Seagrave had the only supplies Seagrave and hi nurse took care. of allcf quinine. my battle casualtie , both American and

After staying in Dr. Seagrave's hospi. Chi!1ese. Those that could b~ patcJ:ed uptal for about 5 days, we set out together easIlr were generally retaIned In J:ISacross the Patkai Mountains of northern hospital and t.hen returned to duty, whileBurma to furnish medical support for the the more senous~y wounded were pre.Chinese units which were beIng sent over pare~ for evacuatl?n to the 20th. Gener~lthe mountains in order to provide pro. Ho~pltal located In Ledo. DurIn.g thiStection for the road engineers who were perIOd I came to k~ow and admire theslowly building what was later to be the total selfless devo~lOn of Dr. SeagraveStilwell Road, running from Assam over to the care of the Sick a~d battle";-voun~.the mountains to Burma. I was with Dr. ed a.nd to ~eeply apP!eclate not Just hiSSeagrave and his nurses for about four me~lcal skill but hiS great depth ofmonths on this mission. The Chinese feelIng for people.pushed right up against the Japanese for. All during the bloody struggle fromward positions and there was constant Shingbwiyang to Lashio deep in the heartpatrolling and skirmishing. Dr. Seagrave of Burma the same phE1nomena occurredset up two hospitals and he and his that I had first noticed at Hkalak Ga andnurse.s furnished the only medical sup. Tagap Ga. As soon as an area was clear.port available to all of the Chinese for. ed of Japs the natives, mostly Kachins,ces in Burma for almost one full year. would come streaming out of the jungles

The two hospitals which Dr. Seagrave ?-nd mountains where they had been hi~.established were at Tagap Ga and Hkalak mg, a1?d all of them would ~ake tJ:1elrGa. They were about 40 miles apart as way directly. to Dr. Seagrave s Hospital.the !crow would fly but about 60 miles What mystenous message had gone onover a rugged jungley mountain trail. All lA.headof us I never .knew ,but as we. push.that late spring of 1943 Dr. Seagrave ed the Japs back mpe by blOOdy ~mle theplodded wearily back and forth over the refugees, and n.atIves poured Into Dr.mountains, living in deserted Naga vil. Sea&Tave s Hospital. An,d .much. to. thel:.ges en route and assuring that every. beWilderment of t!le statIstIc~lly mclInedthing possible was being accomplished supply people far In the rea~ In the sa~etybefore the torrential monsoon rains set of Ledo, Dr. Seagrave furmshed medlc~lin. He was not a young man even then treatment ~nd food to all who can:e hiSand I used to marvel at the tenacity of way. I!J VCl;Inthe. ~u'pply people. tried tohis spirit which kept him going day r~~onclle hiS ~eqUlslt.lOn ~or med~cal sup.after wearying day. It was on these trips p~les and ,ratIOns With hi hospital casethrough the jungles that I first began to load of wounded Chinese soldiers. Theyunderstand that greatness of Dr. Sea. could never under tand that Doc was fur.grave fo!, not only d~d he treat the Chin. nishing medical aid and food for an en.ese soldiers under hiS care but h~ndreds tire de\"a tated area. And I am afraid?-nd hundre?s of Nagas an? KachIn tak. that not too man\" of them were in sym.mg refuge In the mountams awa\" from . :. .the Japs. Wherever we cleared out the p<:.t.h~'WI Doc In thiS extra curn,cularJaps the natives came streaming back actl\"lty. I "now t.hat General Stilwell10 their villages and Doc took care of knew . a' \'as gomg on and approved,all of them. In late June of that year a bu e e "t up to Doc to fight it outmessae:e came in for me to return 0 \'i h he _upply people. This, of course,India and I said farewell to Dr. Seagra\"e re.:: 'ed in a continuing battle whichat Tagap not knowing when or where we ne "er real y worried Doc but which waswould meet again, but conscious of the I am ure mo_t frustrating to the supply

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people with the,ir narrow minds and soulswrapped up in proper forms.

Then when we would move forwardthe moveme,nt of ,the Seagrave's Hospitalwas a wonder to behold. I suppose thathe had the only hospital operating with.in artillery range, on any battle front inthe world which also had an obstetricalward, because the refugees simply hadbabie,S when nature set off its time clock,war or no war. So when Doc moved hishospital ,there were mothers with tinybabies, small ichildren, chickens, ducksand all manner of assorted human beingsperched upon the top of his hospitaleauipment. When he simply could notmove everYithing I would see to it thatsome of my own supply trucks went byand picked up everything that he couldnot handle. This process was repeatedendlessly. As one group of refugees wouldreach its home area 'and fade away backto their villages Doc would be swampedwith a new group which would stay withhim until they in turn reached their vil.lage area. lam certain that there werepretty good records of how many soldiersDoc took care of but I am just as certainthat no one will ever know how manypeople are alive inNor;thern Burma todaywho received medical assistance andfood in those years when we were fight.ing our way back over the mountains andthrough ,the jungles. Certainly manythousands would have die.d without hiscare. It was during these long and brutalyears that I learned how great the hu-man spirit could really be.

In January of 1945 I drove Dr. Sea.grave in a jeep to a ,high point on theroad between Bhamo and his hospitalat Namkham in order that the doctorcould have a first-hand look at the hos-pital which he had evacuated in orderto serve With General Stilwell in early1942. I will never forget my own terriblefeeling of sorrow when, from our positionon the mountains across the Shweli Riv-er Valley, I looked through my fieldglasses at his hospital. We knew thatthe hospital had been utilized as theheadquarters of a Japanese division andwe knew that it had been bombed bythe Air Force because of ,this, but I don'tthink either of us had realized theamount of destruction that had takenplace. I will ne.ver forget hearing Dr.Seagrave, as he ,took his first look athis hospital, mutter to himself, "My God,they even bombed my son's grave,"That was the first time that I realized

at not only had he dedicated his ownl'fe to bringing medical care to thesepeople in ,this far off part of the worldbm that he had sacrificed his own son.

(Later Dr. Seagrave. found the grave un-touched. The bombs had missed it.)

I think at this ,time that the thingthat impressed me the most about Dr.Seagrave was the complete courage withwhich he faced the destruction of hishospital into which he had put so muchof his own life's blood. He never stoppedto bewail his fate or moan that he couldnot rebuild. In fact, he made only themost casual attempt to re-establish thehospital and as the war passed on be-yond Namkham he once again left hisbeloved hospital behind.

In May of 1945 I finally received ordersto return to the United States and as Imade my return trip down the, road fromLashio to Bhamo it was almost impos-sible to realize that only a few monthsbefore we had fought so bitterly overthis stretch of the old "Burma" road.Now the war had passed some 100 milesbeyond and everything was quiet andpeaceful. As I returned that afternoonfrom Lashio, I killed about a dozen Bur-mese partridges. Just before dusk I pulledinto Dr. Seagrave's hospital at Kutkalwhere he had set up his hospital in whatwas left of a stone Baptist 'church. Wesat outside the church and plucked thefeathers off the partridges. Then LittleBhawk, one of his loveliest nurses, cameout and got them and ill a little whilewe had our last dinner together-roastpartridge and Burmese rice. And as thelong twilight faded into darkness we satand talked quietly of all that had hap-pened ,since that disastrous retreat inMay of 1942. Then Dr. Seagrave withcomplete calm layed out to me his pl~nsfor rebuilding his hospital and resummgonce again his great work in bringingmedical care to a people who had neverkr:.own it until he came into the beauti-ful Shweli River Valley.

The ,three bitter years of war weretotally forgotten and Doc dreamed onlyof all that he could do for people in theyears of peace that he thought wouldlie ahead.

Although I have not seen Dr. Seagravesince we had that last dinner together, Ihave been in correspondence with himfor all these years. It is my c,onsideredopinion that his quiet courage represe!1tsthe finest tradition of all that Amencahas meant to so many millions of peoplethroughout the world. -THE END

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News dispatcbes from recent issuesof The Calcutta Statesman

NEW DELHI-India's population, cur-rently estimated at more than 470 mil.lion, is nearly double what it was 63years ago when the first census in 1901recorded a total of 238.3 million personsin the territory now comprising the In-dian Union. The growth rate showed in-creases for every decade since 1901, ex-cept for 1911-21 when there was a fall of0.31 per cent. Projections worked out bypopulation experts put the expected pop-ulation figures in 1981 at 694.9 million.

NEW DEHLI-Nearly five million peo-ple in India have no roof over theirheads, according to a 1961 report of theCentral Census Office on houses andestablishments. Ninety per cent of themare In cities. Greater Bombay alone nas76,000. Among the states, Mysore has themaximum number with 10.6 per cent andMadras is next with 3.8 per cent.

JAGDALPUR-A tigress, believed tohave killed 267 persons and scores ofcattle during the last two months, wasshot dead by a shikar party near Dha-nora village in Bastar district. The In-spector-General of Madhya Pradesh haddeputed the shikar party to destroy tig.ers infesting the district.

NEW DELHI-All British statues inDelhi will be removed from public placeswithin the next six months, according toa high-level decision of the Union Gov-ernment. The first statue to be removedwill be that of Lord Irwin at ParliamentHouse, which was disfigured by Social-ist demonstrators recently. It will be car-ried to the Exhibition Ground on Math-ura Road for safekeeping where it will bejoined shortly by the sta tues of LordChelmsford and Lord Willingdon. Afterthese are removed, the statue of KingGeorge V at India Gate will be sent tothe National Museum for display. Shouldthe British Government want any of thestautes for the British Museum, Indiawill readily send them to London.

BAIDYABATI-:An idol of Govindaadorned with gold ornaments was tolenfrom the Govindanagar Colony at Baid-yabati, Hooghly. The thieves apparentl\"broke open a window to enter the roomwhere. the idol was kept. The idol i aidto have been brought from Barisal, nowin East Pakistan, in 1948. It was the fam-ily deity of the Chowdhurys of Bari aI,and dates back about 500 years.

JULY, 1964

NEW DELHI-A national institute forthe rewriting of Indian history has beenset up here with Mr. P. N. Oak, a Delhihistorian, as its president. The institute,which will open branches throughout thecountry, will aim to remove the basicand far. reaching errors, distortions andhalf. truths that have crept into Indianhistory written largely by aliens.

HAZARIBAGH-Rich reserves of super-grade coal estimated at several milliontonnes have been discovered near Bermoin Hazaribagh district. Coal from thesereserves will be utilized at the new wash-ery which is being set up with Soviet col.laboration in the district.

CALCUTTA-A balloon fitted withweather-reading instruments fell on thetiled I'OOfof a temple in Baikunta Chat.terjee Lane in Howrah recently. The in-struments were so heavy that part ofthe roof collapsed. The balloon belongedto the Alipore Meteorological office.

MONGHYR-About 1,000 demonstratorscarrying empty earthen pitchers andshouting "Bhar barchaila pani do, nahinto gaddi chor do (give us pitcherfuls ofdrinking water or resign) ," marched tothe gates of Monghyr Municipality wherethey broke their pitche:I'S in protestagainst the meagre water supply in thetown. Led by ,the local unit of Jan Sangh,they also staged demonstrations beforethe ele.ctric supply company, demandingadequate supply of power in the town.In this demonstration they carried Ian.terns, candles and fused bulbs to showtheir disgust against the existing powersupply. Later, a resolution was passed ata public meeting demanding adequatesupply of water and power.

DURGAPUR-Work in connection withthe development of Bakreswar, !lJbout 65miles from here, as a tourist resort hasbeen started by the State DevelopmentDepartment. It is officially stated thatthe possibilities of Bakreswar (160 milesfrom Calcutta) as a health resort, notonly for Indian tourists but fol" foreigntourists as wel~, lie in its hot springs, asat Rajgir. The water of the hot springshas been examined and found to be of"immense medical value," particularlyfor skin diseases and rheumatism.

NEW DELHI-There are nearly 100,000centenarians in India according to theanalysis of the 1961 census data. UttarPradesh has he highest number of cell-tenarians-23.T . Bihar comes next with12.032 fO.lo \-ed by Maharashtra with11.352 and _Iadhya Pradesh with 9,334.Altho O'h ~e male population of IndiaL h' 0' er' an the female population, fe-male au' umber males in the higherage O'roup_. Of the 8.6 million personsabo\"e -;- yea , about 4.17 million aremen and -iA3 million are women.

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1875th Engineer Aviation Battalion

roop Train Across IndiaBy JAMES w. BOWMAN

The 1875th Engineer Aviation Battalioncompleted the water leg of its deploy.ment to the Far East by debarking atBombay on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 1944.For a week the battalion was quarteredat DET CVI Armv Air Forces Replac~mentCenter, B.R.D., Worli, and enjoyed fre.quent visits to Bombay itself, the "Gate.way of India."

On Feb. 20, the unit entrained at Vic-toria Station, Bombay, for the long tripacross country. The following excerptsare from a letter written to my wife atthe time, with :certain details filled inwhich had originally been deleted dueto censorship:

Boarded a troop train at Bombay andspent the next four days riding acrossthe face of mother India on the Bengal& Nagpur R.R. We were quartered introop car with accomodations about asfollows: six men occupied each section;the seats, and the bunks which held themeach night were of slatted wood withno cushioning-all you could do was sitand talk, sit and read. or sit and p!ay

- cards as there was hardly room to getup and walk around, though occasionalstops for calisthenics helped keep uslimbered up. At one point we stoppedalong side a village reservoir and halfthe train stole a swim before we movedon. At every stop we were besieged by allmanner of persons-beggars with fea.tures and fingers eaten away by leprosy-small dirty children crying, "No rna.rna, no papa, no brother, no sister" andstram~'ely singing snatches of "Oh John.ny, oh Johnny"-mothers with youngsterson the hip and a basket or jar on thehead-all asking for "baksheesh" be itmoney or scraps of food or cigaret butts.Every stop had a man sharpening knives,bayonets, etC.-his wheel, which was por-table, was spun by wrapping a thongaround the axle and sawing back andforth on same. The abrasive was suppliedby pressing a soft brick against thewheel with one foot. Every station plat.form was crowded with people waitingtirelessly for some train or other. At onestop we talked through the window witha rather well educated native who I be.lieve was a jeweler, watch repairer orsome such-I don't recall just the figureshe gave us but for one of his apparentstanding his income was still only a frac-tion of that of a GI. Sometimes a fewEnglish kids would show up at the train

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to try to sell us Indian coins or to begU.S. coins.

The landscape was just a great kale,i.doscope of which I recall practically no.thing. We did see the ruins of some oldforts and temples and I believe saw someParsee towers of silence as we left Born.bay but can't swear to it. Almost a fea.ture of the early morning landscape werethe native,s squatting about in the fieldswith their little brass pots performingtheir daily ablutions.

At the station in Bombay the Red Crossserved us tea and cakes 'and at a nightstop somewhere enroute some mission-aries did likewise. Otherwise food on thetrain was mostly canned corn beef,though occasionally they were able towhip up a stew, or oatmeal for breakfast.

The train travelled all night and wewere required to sleep under mosquitonetting and with head nets as protectionagainst malaria. Every three hours anofficer would spray the whole car withan aerosol bomb and wake up everyoneto douse themselves with lotion.

Feb. 24 we detrained at Surdiah, asmall siding about 90 miles west of Cal.cutta, in the early afternoon. As usualwe had some time to wait so spent partof it profitably lifting some miscellan.eous cans of GI rations lying loose in abaggage car. It was rather warm in thesun and we were somewhat weary soeventually most of us wound up sittingon the ground leaning back on our packs-the next thing I knew someone sJ100kme awake and I looked up to see every-one in ranks ready ,to move off-I'd gone

MEN of the 1875th view the shore from aferry while crossing the Brahmaputra River.

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ONE of the bashas of the 1875th in temporarycamp near Margherita.

to sleep in full sunlight with a fullfield pack on my back."

Af,ter completion of its principal mis-sions of ,the construction of airfields andother military installations at Dudhkun-di and Kalaikunda, the battalion re-sumed its interrupted railway trip onSept. 30, 1944. The destination this timewas Assam and eventually the ledoRoad.

Entraining at Kharagpur (I believe) wetravelled the 90 miles to and throughCalcutta. This was the only opportunitymost of us had to savor the sights andsmells of that much fabled city of CBL

The Eastern Bengal Railway carriedus north and then east, roughly paralel-ling the Brahmaputra River. No connect-ed sequence of events sticks in my mind,only certain incidents. Somewhere alongthe line we switched to narrower gaugeand even smaller and more crampedcars if that were possible. (In retrospecteven these were commodious comparedto the 40 and eight boxcars we had rid-den from Oran to Algiers. Tempers gotso raw that one dispute over legroomeven led to the pulling of a knife whichfortunately was not used.)

At one protracted halt some of the boys"liberated" a footlocker of booze from abaggage car on an adjoining track. Dur-ing this small halt a number of usseized the opportunity to take a showerby standing under the spout of a tand-pipe used to supply water to locomotiye .We were surprised in the buff when atrain on another track, which had beenscreening us, pulled out and left u- ex-posed to the gaze of the occupan of thecrowded station platform. But, by nowhaving become somewhat used to e"impersonalness" of the orient, we con-tinued our showers unabashed. At an-other halt everyone was again trea ed

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to an impromptu swim in the villagetank or reservoir.

During a considerable part of the jour-ney I sat in a seat on the right side ofthe car, taking in the scenery toward ther've,'. Along ar,out eVClIll,f( my ,el(,ay,"Huck" Irwin of Los Angeles, who hadbeen sitting on the steps on the otherside of the ear came over and asked ifI had seen Mt. Kanchenjunga; of courseI hadn't and by then it was too late-wasI teed off!

Too little has been written about theGI railway outfits who maintained andoperated some of the lines. Those GIengineers really highballed over road-beds tha t, at best were probably nonetoo good and that, under wartime traffic,were undoubtedly a nightmare to keepopen. Mute testimony to this was the fre-quent sight of boxcars which had ,beendamaged or had broken down and weresimply rolled off into the ditch to clearthe way. It was often said that it tooktwo or more wogs to heave the coal fastenough to feed the fires.

A night during this part of the trip waspure misery since we didn't even havethe luxury of hard wood slatted bunkssuch as had been our lot crossing theIndian continent. To escape the crampedstiffness of little coaches quite a fewof us climbed to the roofs of the cars androcked along through the night, bravingsmoke and showers of cinders for thesake of a place to stretch out full length.As far as I know, no one was unluckyenough to fall asleep and roll off.

The railroad continued up-country,rounding the bend of the Brahmaputratoward the East, and dead-ending on theriver bank at Gauhati. Here we detrainedand ferried a:cross to Pandu where we

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seen hemp or jute (don't know which)from the field ,to the ,bundles of raw fi.ber on the way to market and acres andacres of tea. The tea bushes apparentlyhave to be shaded as all the groves aredotted with large shade trees either inrows or apparently as they were leftwhen the original undergrowth wascleared away. The tea bushes are prunedabout waist high and grow so close to-gether that a grove has the appearanceof a huge, flat, neatly ,trimmed lawndotted with shade trees and half-people.

The railroad crossed the Manipur Roadnear Dimapur and someone told us thatthis had been headquarters for FrankBuck on one of his animal hunting sa.faris. Now the Japs were being huntedaround Imphal and Kohima not manymiles to the South and it seems to mewe saw a POW stockade here.

Eventually we reached the railhead. atMargherita whe~ we made our ~lrstacquaintance WIt h musty, dnppmg,crawling Assam bashas. / TheSe were tobe our homes for a few days prior totrucking on down the Ledo Road. I hadhad my last train ride, until I again hitUncle Sugar some 15 months later, andcan truly say that from me there wereno regrets that such was to be the case.

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WHENEVER the train stopped, there were reoquests for "baksheesh."

spent a few hours at Plymouth (or Ports.mouth) Rest Oamp, a British tent city.We were served one meal here whichconsisted of those infamous English sau.sages and beans. There was also a can.teen of sorts which offered little otherthan tea and which was crowded withAussie and New Zealand troops in theirfloppy felt hats. Before the day was outwe boarded another train, this time theBengal and Assam RR, and were on ourway again.

While crossing India we had eaten onthe fly with few, if any stops either forthe preparation or serving of chow. Go.ing up into Assam the train also carriedsome sort of a kitchen set in a baggageear, but I believe we' did stop for chowcall. At ,that (and may the ex. cooks for.give me if I'm wrong) it seems as thoughit was only "C" rations and possibly only"K's".

Again a quote tirom a letter home-I've

ASSAM troop train debarking near }'Iargherita.

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a rback edition of a book951. Like the bluff five.star

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ea'e is an honest and out.o i ary record. General Bradley

he war as he saw it fromAfrica before the Tunisianhe surrender of Germany.

DOOLITTLE'S TOKYO RAIDERS. By Lt.Col. Carrol! V. Glines. D. Van Nostrand Co.,Princeton, N. J. May 1964. $5.

This is a stirring book about the Amer.ican surprise air attack on Japan in April1942, written with the endorsement andcooperation of General James Doolittleand other raiders. Planning details andfirst-hand accounts by crew members ofB.25 planes involved are followed by anevaluation of the raid's effect and itsaftermath. The book is illustrated withaction photographs, many not previouslydeclassified.

IMAGE OF W'" AR. Photographs by RobertCapa. Grossman Publishers, New York. May1964.

This book was published on the 10thanniversary of the death of this famouswar photographer, caused by a land minein Indochina. lt brings together his great.est work, from 1931 to 1954, photographstaken in Spain, China, Israel, the FarEast, and on all fronts in \\'orld War II.It also gives his own words about whatbitter fighting was like. An appreciationby John Steinbeck is included.

A SOLDIERS STORY. B) Omar N. Bradley.Pn 1<:.1 Li-.1r .-. York, N. Y. June 1964.P.... ~ < <

Air Force today who were a part of thatoriginal group of rugged airmen of 20years ago.

One such individual is MSgt. CariousL. Christian, first sergeant of the 1st AirMateriel Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Fla.Recalling the past, Sergeant Christiansaid, "I was with the, air commandoswhen they were first formed. The overalloperation and ruggedness of the unitremain about the same-but the troopstoday get a chance to shave more often."

(AFNS)

The air commandos of ,the Tactical AirCommand, one of the most unique unitsin the history of military aviation, cele.brated a 20th anniversary at HurlburtField, Fla. recently.

The history of air commandos datesback to the China.Burma.lndia theaterof operations during World War II.

lt all began when British Brig. Orde C.Wingate, heading the "Chindit" fighters,'was attempting to penetrate Japanesedefenses in northern Burma to attack the"soft core" communications zone behindtheir lines. Initial attempts were dis.couraged because wounded jungle fight-ers had to be left behind "for the good ofthe whole unit." Facing an unacceptableloss of experienced men, Brigadier Win.gate appealed to the Allied High Com.mand for a solution. Air Force Gen.Henry H. "Hap" Arnold proposed resupplyand evacuation by air. His proposal wasaccepted ,by Wingate and the air com.mando operation was born.

The plan called for the air transport,resupply and evacuation support of adivision of super-trained Wingate troops.The jungle fighters were to operate, forweeks at a time sustained entirely byair with any wounded being evacuatedby air.

Originating from primitive se,cret basesin India, first operations against the Jap-anese in Burma began in February 1944.In August 1945 the 1st Air CommandoGroup was awarded the DistinguishedUnit Citation and returned home. The or.ganization was disbanded in October1948.

WUh the strategic and tactical strengthof the United States successfully block-ing the Communists' direct road to worlddomination through overt aggression,Premier Khrushchev in 1961 announcedCommunist support for what he termed"wars of liberation."

In response, President Kennedy direct.ed each of the U. S. Military services todevelop the capability to meet ,this latestthreat within its own capability. On Apr.14, 1961, the Tactical Air Command dir-eoted the formation of the 4400th CombatCrew Tr a i n i n g Squadron (CCTS) atHur1burt Field, Fla.

Operating under top priority, the 4400thCCTS was designed to provide the AirForce with a greater tactical air capa.bility to meet the ,threat of insurgencyaround the world. With the increasedemphasis placed upon this phase of taC'.ical air operations, the squadron soonbecame a group, and, with the acti\'a.tion of the Special Air Warfare Centerin April of 1962, .it was re.designated the1st Air Commando Group.

There aren't too many men around the

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With the 475th Infantry in Combat

Diary of a Marsman

MEMBERS of Headquarters Company, 2ndBattalion, climb aboard a C-47 at Kut Kai,Burma. In the background (with fatigue hat)is Capt. Albert T. Willis, company commander.

By ALBERT T. WILLIS, JR.

I joined the Mars Task Force fromChina 22 October, 1944. I had spent 13months in China as an instructor at theITC of SE China at Kweilin and later asa liaision officer with the 24th GroupArmy in the Pao-ching area. Below areactual excerpts from my diary whichmay be of interest to readers after 20years:

22 Oct 44: Left China 1130 PM in aC-46. Back over the hump. Cold trip.Saw Jinx Falkenberg before leaving.

23 Oct 44: Landed Chabua early morn-ing. Good chow here. Lots of people onthe way home.

24 Oct 44: Left Chabua for Myitkynia.Arr Myitkyina late aft. Asgd to 2nd Bnof the 475th Inf. Very busy field. CampLandis is on the Irrawady River.

25 Oct 44: Took over Hdq Co of the 2BN from Knowles. Lt Col Thrailkill isCO of 2nd Bn. Col Easterbrook, son inlaw of Gen Stilwell is 475th CO. HdqCo. off are: CO, Capt. Willis; Ex 0, Lt.Chennault; Commo Plat., Lt. Pengilly;P&D Plat., Lt. Kavel; Weapons Plat., Lt.Jones and Fusillo; I&R Plat., Lt. Thi-beault. Madding is Bn Adj., Maj JohnLattin is Bn Ex. Capt Duncan has G Co.,Capt Hunter has E Co., Capt Maxon hasF Co. All weapons in one platoon of HdqCo., the 475th as a Long Range Pene-tration Group had NO Heavy WeaponsCompanies.

26 Oct 44: Can't get used to havingcompany of combat troops after 13months in China.

27 Oct 44: Start of 3 day bivouac.Rough marching, especially when I ain'tused to it. My first use of perimeter de.fense.

28 Oct 44: 124th Cav arrives. Continuetraining.

29 Oct 44: Col Heavey here a CO ofthe 124th Cav. I knew him in China.Tries to transfer me to 124th.

30 Oct: General Arms in jeep accident.Broke leg.

31 Oct: Some mail.9 Nov: Madding takes over Hdq Co.

Am assgd to En Staff. Was commendedby Thrailkill for short time with Hdq Co.

13 Nov: Hobe Kavel to hospital withtyphus. Kavel a fine officer.

14 Nov: 2nd Bn left Myitkyina. Leftbehind with police detail. Campaign ac-tually begun.

15 Nov; Crossed Irrawady River in mo-tor boats. Re-joined Bn. With P&D PIa-

toon. Lt. Schell (new adj of the 2 Bn) andI bunking together.

16 Nov: First days actual marching.At rear of column with Doc Worley. Roadhot and dusty. Passed through someChinese troops. First air drop.

17 Nov: Continue to make good time.Country still clear.

18 Nov; Jungles beginning to appear.Heading for Bhamo. Heavy fighting thereis reported.

19 Nov: Due for some rest soon.25 Nov; Arrived Tali. Here for rest.

Other Bn's not far behind. Old Jap boobytraps found near here.

28 Nov: Special Thanksgiving ration atTali. First chance to write home. Am do-ing asst S 3 work. Assgd to E Co.

7 Dec; 2nd Bn to patrol Sheweli Riverarea around Tonkwa. We have marched185 miles so far. Japs reported in Ton-kwa area.

8 Dec; E Co. ordered to Tonkwa. Re-inforced with heavy machine guns andBn mortars. Maps inaccurate.

9 Dec: First contact with Japs. OurI&R platoon at Mo-Hliang. One killedtwo wounded. 33 Japs l'illed. We dig infor the night 7 miles' ,from Mo-Hliang.

10 Dec: Bn moving up to occupy Ton-kwa and cover withdrawal of Chinese22nd Div. to China. Japs within 400 yds ofTonkwa perimeter.

11 Dec: Entered Tonkwa. Spent firstnight with Chinese. Nip artillery zeroedin on village. About 20rds of 70 mm

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PONTON bridge at the crossing of ShweliRiver is repaired by elements of HeadquartersCompany, 2nd Battalion.

fire tonight. Capt Hunter and I together.12 Dec: Chinese pulling out. Nip shell

area all day. Some casualties. Start workon deluxe dug-out. Saw first Jap today.Picked to lead 3 platoon attack on Japstomorrow.

13 Dec: Our attack off. Japs attack in-stead. They hit F and G Co at 0535AMMore Nip 70 mm fire during day. Found5 pups in basha. Lt Bachmond killedalso Maj. Doong.

14 Dec: Another Jap attack at 0610AM. Col Thrailkill wounded. Sgt Clancycooks bacon during attack.

15 Dec: Quiet except for 70 mm firefrom Japs. Our I&R platoon had a closecall today. They had to whistle DIXIEto find their way back to our perimeter.

16 Dec: Some mail. Lots of bombingand strafing by P 47's today. Japs musthave pulled out. Our Bn closest Alliedtroops to Mandalay!

25 Dec: Christmas Day at Tonkwa. Got14 packages.

26 Dec: Lt. McGirt on a recon missionto the south.

27 Dec: E Co moved to Dandin-Sakanabout 4 miles south. Evidence of Japbivouac and camps all around.

28 Dec: Pups getting noisy. We aresupplied with native ox cart. About anhour trip to Tonkwa.

29 Dec: Return to Tonkwa. ilIission ac-complished.

30 Dec: Chinese move in again. _-a-tives begin to return to their demoli -hedvillage. They can have it.

31 Dec: Assgd to G Co. Capt Duncais due for rotation. Bn. moving ou inthe morning. Lt. Jenkins, Ex off. Lt. Gor-dy and Lt. Berkowitz are Platoon leader:.

1 Jan 45: Left Tonkwa. Hot as hell.Heading for Sheweli River crossing. 475th

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using elephants. No more jeep trafficafter today.

2 Jan: Hit mountains and rough climb.ing. Bivouacked on banks of SheweliRiver.

3 Jan: Crossed Sheweli. Very moun-tainous. Lost some mules over the side.

4 Jan: mountains5 Jan: mountains6 Jan: Hard day on trail. Mountains

are hell.7 Jan: Hardest day on the trail yet.

Over and down the mountains in rain toMong Wi. Japs expected here. Bivouac at8:30 PM. Not all of the Bn made it in.I&R on rescue mission. Plane down.

8 Jan: Should get rest here. Verydamp. Moving to new location.

9 Jan: G Co. moves ahead of the Bnto Tunhkok. Take wrong trail and moveoverland. Set up outside village of Tunh-kok. Natives friendly. Have seen no Japssince leaving Tonkwa.

10 Jan: Arrived bivouac near Nammato wait orders. Large bivouac area. 1stBn moves in, also the artillery. No airdrop.

11 Jan: What a perimeter! Seems tobe no Japs in area. No air drop.

12 Jan: Still no air drop. 3 day C ra-tion almost gone.

13 Jan: No air drop. No activity. 1stand 3rd Bn not far aw-ay. Can see theirair drop. Weare also near Chinese.

14 Jan: No air drop. No food.15 Jan: We got our Burma Road mis-

sion today. Col. Easterbrook talked to us.Told us this was definitely IT. Strippedto combat packs and full ammo. Ourmission to block Burma Road south ofNamhkan to prevent use of the Road tor:"""'.

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2nd Battalion, 475th Infantry-each the Waingmaw side of the. er. In about four hours almost 900

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SOLDIERS of the 2nd Battalion, 475th Infantry,fire on Jap positions on the Burma road.

Japs retreating toward Lashio. Strengthor disposition of enemy unknown.

16 Jan: Up stream to paddy. Watercold. Over large hill to bivouac in ruinedvillage. No contact.

17 Jan: Still up stream. Jap bloc onpaddy so we detour. Pass thru 1st BnBivouac on side of stream. Was at rearof Bn with Berkowitz.

18 Jan: Hit the hill on Burma Roadwith G Co. Hit paddy at 3:05 PM. Pinneddown for the night. Quite a few casual-ties. Hill appears lightly held by Japs.Steep narrow paths limit maneuver.Mostly Nambu and knee mortar fire.Jenkins and I with mules first night.

19 Jan: Not much change today.20 Jan: Definitely occupy Loi-Kang

hill today. Bn perimeter. Jap force stillbelieved smal!. Nambu and sniper fire.

21 Jan: Jenkins and I continue to digin. Patrol activity and sniping. Lookslike we are here to stay.

22 Jan: 124th Cav moves on their ob-jective. Can see battle from here. Someliaison planes crack up. C-47's continueto drop supplies.

23 Jan: Lt. Gority to take over G Co.Capt Duncan getting out on rotation.Hear I am going back to Hdq Co.

24 Jan: Took over Hdq Co. today. P&DPlatoon got hit on patrol to Burma Rd.Bad day. Lots of Jap artillery. Quite afew casualtie . Japs shell all night. Hadfirst shaye and bath since 1 Jan.

25 Jan: :i\Iore casualties from Jap ar-tillery. Start to work on new dug outwith Sgt. IcEnally.

26 Jan: Japs still shelling. Start con-struction of communication trench on topof Loi-kang ridge. Using native labor.

27 Jan: Japs knock out one of my

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heavy machine guns this morning. Morecasualties. Some sniping. Native laborerkilled 10 feet from me.

28 Jan: Moved into new hole. Quietnight for a change. G Co had small at-tack. P&D gets rest. Lots of B rations.Wrote letters. Some beer flown in. Closecall in the Bn CP this afternoon. 70mmwhiz bang.

30 Jan: Went to the Burma Road to-day. One Jap killed. Kid in E Co. killedby mortar fire. Got some souvenirs fromJap. Jap artillery still zeroed in. Patrolto Road checked damage to road. Re-setbooby traps. Under Jap observation. Sawseveral in woods from Road. Direct hiton landing strip. Jap attack E Co. to-night.

31 Jan: Hot and heavy. Japs penetrateperimeter. 12 Japs killed. Lots of trafficon The Road. Bard hit. Lots of air acti-vity today. Not much artillery today.Mail today. Casualties continue to be"key men". Destroyed so far on the Road:3 Jap trucks, 2 tankettes. Damage toother vehicles evidence by glass andfenders.

1 Feb: Capt. Maury Hunter & Lt. Mc-Girt killed late yesterday by direct hit.I bunked with these guys at Tonkwa,and would have been in that dug outif not transfered to Hqq Co. Saw MajMilhollen, knew him in" China. Maddingtakes over E Co. Capt Glock who broughtSniper Scopes spent the night in my dugout. More Jap artillery than ever before.3 men from E Co. killed.

2 Feb: 12:30 direct hit on the Bn OP.Lt Col Thrailkill and Sgt. Diamianoekilled instantly. Cornfelt had leg cut off.Doc Worley in the OP with Cornfelt.Awful night. Excess men moving offridge. Japs now throwing 150mm at us.

ELEMENTS of the 2nd Battalion, 475th Infan-try Regiment, cross a ponton bridge at Kasu,31 miles fmm the Irawaddy.

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---------------------- __ Diary of a MarsmanIt is naw 5:30 PM and its relativelyquiet. Unusually quiet night.

3 Feb: 1st Bn attack jumped off at0600. All is well so far. F Co. committed.Attack slow but successful. Attack to con.tinue in morning. Only a few scattered70mm thrown at us today.

4 Feb: 1st Bn and F Co. meet and Fmoves up into village other side Lai-kangridge. Hdq Co moving abaut 1:45 PM.Saw Col. Davies and Col. Stilwell today.Dug into side of hill. Nat much sleep. Ishall remember this as "Maceys WindowNight". We are sure exposed. Nat muchsleep. Men take pot shots at loose muleen the trail. Everybody is Jap jittery.

5 Feb: Consolidating position today.Have excellent dug out now. A few scat.tered 70mm at us.

6 Feb: A quiet night except for gre-nades. I&R patrols. Mail today.

7 Feb: Quiet night. B-25's over today.Chinese moving thraugh us today walked

entire Bn perimeter today. DestinationLashio! No Jap artillery today. Quietnight. Promised a rest.

S Feb: Wrote letters. Moving P&D p!a.toon to bottom of hill tomorrow. C!)jnesevery near us now. Lots of rumors today.

9 Feb: Detailed to take Bn troops overto dedicate cemetery near the old dropzone in the valley. Chinese 30th Divmoving through us.

10 Feb: Moving to bottom of hill to.morrow.

NOTE: This far all practical purposesends the battle phase of the MARS TASKFORCE. We entered an administrativebivouac after this date and were laterflown out from Kutkai, Burma, to Kun.ming, China, and by L 'X convoy toKweiyang, China. I turned Hdq. Ca. overto Lt. J. \V. Jones 14 April, returning toKunming and eventually to' the UnitedStates 22 May fram Calcutta on the USSGen. Greely, arriving in the U.S.A. atHamptan Roads, Va., June 22, 1945.

Richard Walsh• Members of the 843rdAAA Battalion will regretto learn of the passing afRichard WaJsh, af Syracuse,N.Y., whO' was in .the radiO'message center af the aut.fit when the 843rd was inMyitkyina, Burma, ,and atCheJlgtu, China. Dick diedsuddenly twa days afterChristmas, 1963. He was in.strumental in helping to'publish The Jackal JuiceJaurnal, the newsletter afthe 843rd which still gaesaut rto members af our aIdautiLt. He leaves a wife andthree sans.

GLENN HESS,Clay, N.Y.

John L. Mallen• A CBI veteran framRochester was amang 17men reparted dead 0'1' mis.sing recently in ,the crashaf twa ALr Farce planesnear Hamiltan, Bermuda.He was Maj. John L. Mal.len, 42, nawgatar ahoardane af the planes. He enter.ed the Air Farce in 1941,and was with the 14th Air

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Farce in Chi n a duringWarld War II. SurviV'al.'Sin.clude his wife; three chilodren, his parents and atherrelatives.

ED BERNARD,Rochester, N.Y.

George W. Mayhew• I am the widaw afGeorge W. Mayhew, and faryears we subscribed ,to' yaurwand e rf u 1 mag a z i n eGearge passed away in 1960and I just failed to' 'renewaur subscription, but wouldlike to' dO' so naw as I en-jay the magazine verymuch. r wauld like to' visitBurma and India someday,but can't affard it this fall.

DORIS L. MAYHEW,Mt. Vernan, Wash.

96th Field Hospital• T his old ex.chaplain'sassistant, 96th Field Hospi.tal, is still in the news.paper business. Time eel'.tainly flies, doesn't it? I'mcompleting my 23rd yearwith the Elmira Star Ga-zette and Sunday Te e!!Tamat Elmira .. '.Y. 'I'm' 'ethree.times.fa her an r 'e-times. grandfa er b ac'e .so you can see hi 0- areprogressing. Bes \1 aall af you whO' read andwrite Raundup.

TED CALK!. 'S.Troy, lOa.

Atabrine Annie's• Wauld lave to gO' back to"Atabrine Annie's" CBI area-but just am nat thatflush with lettuce. Bay isnaw 15-wauld he have a,time--seeing, smelling, etal af where a bit af mestill is! 'Keep up the goodwark. I'd like. ,to hear from0'1' about Dr. T. E. O'Brien,M.D., Major "1 Shat" Wal.dorf, Llayd C. Packs (Ser.pentolagy), "Aranga." Sa.laams.CHARLOTTE JIMMY.KOCH,Miami, Fla.

Leave the Odor• !tis a great pleasure, to'receive Ex.CBI Roundup.Best af luck an trip to'India; leave the adar, butgive us full details af thetrip.

FRED ~L ELKIN JR.,Lexington, N.C.

51st Fighter Group• rved with ,the 25thFig h tel' Squadron, 51st

'ohter Graup, at Karachi;Sookenting Air Base, Assam,India; and Yunnanyi, Chi.na. Enjay reading you I'mag a z i n e very much.Wauld Like ,to' hear framany of the old gang af "OurAssam Dragan Squadran."

LOY J. ROGERS,Shreve, OhiO'

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Davico's in elhiBy GEORGE E. MILHAM

(Written in December 1944)

A bottle of bad tasting beer decidedthe question in point-we would havesteak dinners at Davico's. In less than anhour we were sitting in the large diningroom ordering our meal. The bearers inthis place are regally clad in huge, elab.orately embroidered turbans, tunic frocksof white, belted by a wide black sashjoined with a large brass buckle. Theyalso wear white ,trousers, loosley fittedand, since they work in such a swankyestablishment, shoes.

There are three different classes of In.dian waiters. Class 1 includes those whodo everything within their power to sat.isfy their clients. They also take abusethat no American counterpart would tol.erate. Class 2 is ,composed of men whohave a "don't.give.,a.damn" attitude.They serve the meal and disappear untilthe moment Ithe napkin Is used after thelast bite. Class 3 is very much disliked.These waiters are definitely career men.They want no nonsense from anyone,mind you, and would thank you to keeprelations strictly on the business level.Words are not spoken unless absolutelynecessary, no complaints are expectedeither since satisfaction is all they renoder. Above all, a generous tip is expectedwhen the diner leaves.

The wine connisseur came to us afterthe meal had been ordered. (In Indiathere is a man for each particular job,no matter how insignificant it may be.A man who sweeps will not dust. A manwho dusts will not empty wastepaperbaskets, etc,) When we asked him thetypes of wines he had in stock, he re-plied, "I have any kind the sahibs de,.sire." That is a 1ypical answer to aninquiry of that nature. When boiled downto hard facts, he had but two to choosefrom.

The wine was good and we were thenready for the steaks which were beingbroiled over a charcoal fire in a compart-ment in the far corner of the room.

Suddenly we saw our dark, handsomebearer fairly running toward the tablecarrying a large platteI' almost high upto his head. If two people dine together,the complete two meals are in one plat-ter; the same applies for four meals orsix. I was served first The big steakcame out, then the onion, tewed tomato,peas, and chips. I told the waiter thatthe chips weren't adequate for two pea.

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pIe but he looked 'at me sadly and saidthat the kitchen was running low andhe couldn't give us any more. My com.panion made the same statement andhe also received the same reply and sadexpression. Before the thearer left ourside, I reminded him that the chips wereinsufficient and, when he was in an un.hearing distance, I mumbled that thatmeant at least two annas would be sub.tracted from his bahkshe,esh (tip). -

We were enjoying our food to the ut.most when we looked toward the broilingdepartment and noticed our man quar.reling with the potato server. He evident.ly received little satisfaction since hecalled the chief waiter who appeared tobe a stern and determined person. Aftera fest in Hindustani, our boy and thechief walked in our direction. We knewit was the chipEl, or, rather, the shortageof the chips, so we both jammed as manyof the little morsels down our throats aswe possibly could so as to make theshortage appear more critical than itactually was! After a serious survey, theboss agreed that we were not give.n afair supply and he went' back to the chipsman and gave him Hindustani hell.Ten minutes later ouIT."bearer-the go.getter that he wa~ame back with aplate of hot tubers and the biggest sat.isfied grin that I have ever seen. We wereas proud of him as he was of himself, andI didn't fail to tell him that I thoughthe was an exceptionally teek (good)man. The grin fairly ripped his mouthapart. Then and there the. decision wasmade to return the two annas which wehad mentally taken from his tip.

It seems to be some sort of sport inIndian restaurants for waiters to removecertain articles from occupied tables.There is plenty of equipment on unusedtables and in the kitchen, but that isnot part of the game. When the dinel'Sare speaking to each other or lookingthe other way, some strange bearersmoothly and very quietly passes by andsnatches either ,the. 'catsup, salt, or evenyour glass of water. I think it must beto add excitement to the meal or to keepone occupied by eating and guarding histableware. In that way, less time isspent in a parliculaI' sitting and room forwaiting eaters is more quickly made.(These Indians are clever, you must ad.mitl) Before we had finished our steaks,we had lost one glass of water, a dishof butter, the toast holder, two slices oftoast, one spoon, and the bowl of fresh

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flowers which had been in the middle ofthe table. We were mad! We called ourbearer and told him what had happened.Fully determined to please his two Amer.ican "custoomers" he again contactedthe chief waiter, and in rapid conversa-tion told him of our misfortune with thepassing bearer or bearers. Consequently,four thieves were apprehended and for-ced to return our rightful possessions.That satisfied grin appeared once moreand that pride of ours in having thego-gettingest bearer in the place swelledup inside of us. I again told him thathe was a teek berurer and that some dayhe might even become ,the boss. Thatmoment we decided ,to add two addi-tional ann as to the bahksheesh.

While we were finishing up, my com-panion made the remark that he couldn'tpossibly finish his chips since he hadtoo much and was about to split hismiddle. I told him he had to clean hisplate even if it meant putting the left-overs in his pocket. I was serious, too; wecouldn't let our bearer down. These aresensitive people, for one thing; and inview of all his effol'ts I wouldn't wantto hurt his feelings for all of India. Heagreed; and when he had finished stuf-fing the last forkful in his mouth, helooked more distressed than any humanbeing I have ever seen.

The waiter who had command of thenext tahle happened -to remark in brokenEnglish that he was disappointed in ussince we hadn't taken his table. We as-sured him, not wanting to involve our-selves in any more difficulty with Dav-ico's, that we would remember his spotthe next time. That,pleased him no end(the chiseler) and he, in all seriousness,mentioned that his table was alwayscovered with a plain white cloth, whereasthe one we occupied always wore a bluecheckered one. That was supposed tohave been inducement supreme.

When our boy returned to clear thetable, I asked him if he would bring ussome tea and some of Davico's famouspastl'y. When the bill was presented,later and very silently, we discoveredthat the pastry had not been charged tous. We imagined ,that that was either ahint for a good tip or an omission of ourbe'arer's appreciation; it was hard to tell.We mentioned the omission to him, butwe might just as well have spoken inGreek for all he was concerned. Hesmiled generously and waved hi handand then, very suddenly, stood erect andgave us the snappiest salute in anyman's army. I'm sure anyone of our topgenerals would have been delighted withit. Our waiter was pleased beyond wordswith himself and the generous tip weleft and he promptly reminded his Amer-

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ican rajahs to make sure that they cameto his table the next time we visitedthere. He bowed slightly when departingand immediately ran over to the potatoman and waved the rupee notes in hisface! -THE END

IXTRODt..:CTlO.' TO RADHAKRISHNAN:The Man and HiJ Thought. BJ S, J. Samartha.Seminar) Paperback Original, AJJociation PreJJ,''\-.Y. Ma) 1964. ,2.25.

An objective, thoughtful evaluation ofSarvepalli Radjakrishnan, the great Hin-du philosopher and president of India.The author describes the essentials ofHinduism and its interpretation by Rad.hakrishnan, major points in the phil-osopher-statesman's system of thought,Indian criticism he has received, Chris-tian theological views on his work, andRadhakrishnan's attempt to bring East-ern and Western thought and religiontogether in world unit .

AMERICANS ON EVEREST. By JameJ Ram-ley Ullman. J. B. Lippincoll Company, Phila-delphia and New York. Ma)' 1964. $8.95.

The breathtaking story of the success-ful campaign of 18 Americans and oneEnglishman to climb Mount Everest fromNepal in 1963 by two routes. Six men, oneof them a Sherpa, reached the summit.Ullman himself, for his health's sake,was not permitted to go far from Kath-mandu, the roadhead in Nepal, but wrotehis book from his inside view of the ex-pedition's preparation and from themen's diaries and reminiscences. Thebook includes a foreword by Norman G.Dyhrenfurth, leader of the expedition.

THE FAR FACE OF THE MOON. By George(ohnllon. IF'iIliam Morrok and Company, NewYork. April 1964. ",.9 .

Setting for this no\'el is a base campin ..L<;am from which the Air TransportCommand '_ flying supplies over theHum . '0 China during World War II.I co eer - he impact a group of enter-a'ne has upon the men stationedhere. a d especially the unexpected in-xu-'o 0 one woman into that all-male

pre.e 'e. The fact that it was JaneCar n. Hollywood's most famous sexs\'mbo, accentuated and prolonged theshock.

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Commander's

Message

by

Haldor ReinholtNational CommanderChina-Burma-Indla

Veterans Assn.

We were shocked to hear of the suddendeath of Dennis Loughman. He was ahard-working wallah who gave much ofhis strength to the CEl-VA. His last Na-tional service was as Provost Marshal.But whether as a National Officer or rankand filer, he always lent a hand when-ever he could be of help. He never en-gaged in back-biting or became self-righteous, but rather saw the positiveaccomplishment in everyone's efforts. Hiswell-mannered sons are a living testi-monial to the kind of father he was. Thetragedy was that he did not live to seethem grow to manhood. Our hearts goout to Mrs. Loughman and her family.God bless. you.

There are many other unsung heroes.For example, there are those who editand publish the basha newsletters whichhelp to tie us together. From Glen Hessof Clay, New York, to Lee Bakker of Se-attle, Washington, they do locally whatNeil Maurer does nationally with theEx-CBI Roundup. In what other organi-zation can we find such exotic titles asthe Dhobi Wallah Sheet (Seattle); For-tune Cookie (S.F.); Tea Leaf (Ohio);Basha Blabber (Buffalo); Rice PaddyPress (Phila.)?

Dr. B. W. Stilwell, son of the GeneralJoseph W. (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell, wassupposed to represent me in presentingthe charter to the San Diego Basha onJune 17th, at the EI Cortez Hotel. Butan emergency called him to the hospitaland so hard-working Len Cordaro, theBasha Commander, arranged for a lastminute substitution in the person of Bob

This space is contributed 10 the CBlV A byEx-CBl Roundup as a sert'ice to the manyreaders who are members oj the Assn., of whichRoundup is the officiai publication. J.t is im-pOI-tant to remember that CBlV A and Roundupare entirely separate organizations. Y 0111' sub-scription to Roundup doe'S not entitle YOII 10membership in CBlV A, nor does )'our member-ship in CBI,v A entitle )'OU to a subscription toRoundup. You need not be a member oj CBlV Ain order to subscribe 10 Roundllp and tise t'ersa.-Ed.

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Lee. Bob and Len are both former mem-bers of the Chicago Basha. (Joe Pacenti'sboys sure do get around.)

Confidential note to St. Louis Basha:San Diego is out to play host to the 1966Reunion.

From Winston-Salem, North Carolina,Raymond Beard has sent an applicationfor chartering of the Piedmont Basha. Weexpect the application to be acted uponin time for presentation at the Phila-delphia Reunion.

Proud I am that three new Bashas willhave been chartered (EI Paso, Texas,was the first) before my term as Na-tional Commander has come to an end.But proud as I am, I regret as much atbeing unable to visit the Cascade andDhobi Wallah Bashas in Washington, orto get to the Iowa State meeting. OurAssociation has grown to the point whereit is impossible for the National Com-mander to visit every Basha unless hecan do it in one grand tour. And thatmeans every Basha would have to re-schedule its main functions accordingly.And that is an almost impossible task.

Those of you who plan to go to theWorld's Fair and wish to stay overnightin New York will find the Summit Hotelat East 51st & Lexington a most com-fortable and hospitable hostelry. Ask forMr. Henkin and tell him I sent you.

FLASH-The eager-beaver H 0 u s tonBasha just signed up Senator Barry G~ld-water. If elected he Will be the fIrstPresident who became a member of theCEl -VA before entering the White House.Welcome aboard, Senator.

And so with the sun sinking in thewest (as they say in the travelogues),I leave this column to my successor. Mayhe have as an eventful and unforgettableyear as I had. Many salaams. See you atthe Reunion in Philly, Millie.

HALDOR R. REINHOL T,National Commander

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INDIAL"S gather to ee a C-4- that crashed while transportingChinese patients to Ramgahr. Photo by Charles E. Mason, M.D.

MAJOR GENERAL Howard C. Davidson, commanding the10th Air Force, is shown on a visit to Feni, India. At left isCol. Lloyd Dalton, commanding officer of the 12th BombGroup. Photo by Robert E. Spence.

Department of Ohio Helps to Remember• The Depar.tment of Ohio, • Each iss u e of Ex-CElCBIVA, met Saturday, June Roundup is enjoyed from13, at Dayton. Election of cover to cover. Of course, Iofficers was included in the always look for letters fromregularly scheduled meet- Ex-Delhi S i g n a I Wall as,ing, with .the following and for articles concerningnamed. State commander- the old Signal Center, NewRichard Poppe, Queen City Delhi. We struggled withBasha, reelected. State sen- the "elements" in tho s eior vice commander-Wil- early days, but I never will~iam Eynon Jr., Queen City forget our experiences andBasha. State. junior vice friendships fro m Marchcommander-Edward Ber- 1942 through June 1944.rendt, Toledo Basha. State Your magazine helps me toadjutant and finance offi- remember.cer-Ethel Yavorsky, Ma- JOHN E. SEIFERT,honing Valley Basha. Pro- De Witt, Iowavost marshal-Amelio Cat-elani, Mahoning Vall e yBasha. Judge advocate-Howard Clager, Miami Val-ley Basha. Chaplain-AIWilhelm, Toledo Bas h a.Pu b Ii c reJations-EdwardStipes, Toledo Basha. Sec-retary-Louise Clager, Mi-ami Valley Basha, retained.News editor, Mitchell Vir-gaUtte, Mahoning ValleyBasha, retained. The instal.lation of officers will beheld in Cincinnatti in Octo-ber. A well-representativegroup met in Dayton, and agood ,time was had by all.The National Reunion inPhiladelphia was discussed.

J. EDWARD STIPES,Toledo, Ohio

JULY, 1964

Liked May Cover• Am. still enjoying themagazme and appreciatedt~e ~ay cover photo, thefIrst I ve seen showing oneof our CWS men and one ofour Peng Yu.

GENE SIRI,Mesa, Ariz.

Vice-Chief of Staff• The Air Force is to havea new vice-chief of staffeffective August I, in th~person of Gen. John P. Mc-Connell. now deputy CIC,U. S. European Command.McConnell, 56, graduatedfrom West Point in 1932and had extensive WorldWar II service in the China-Burma-India Theater. Hejoined SAC as director ofplans in 1953, later head-ed the Second Air Forceand in 1961 became vicecommander of the com.mand. He assumed hispresent command in Eur.ope in October 1962. McCon-nell, who has been highon the list of favorites toeventually head the mili-tary side of the Air Forcemade brigadier general inAugust 1944, major generalin December 1950, and wonhis third star in June 1959.His elevation puts him inthe favored position to re-place Gen. Curtis E. LeMayas AF chief of staff whenhis term ends in February.

ART KELLY,Washington, D.C.

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