The Allied Resupply Effort In The China Burma India Theater During World War Ii
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Author | : Leo J. Daugherty III |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2008-02-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786431377 |
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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.
Author | : Donovan Webster |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2004-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0060746386 |
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As the Imperial Japanese Army swept across China and South Asia at World War II's outset, closing all of China's seaports, more than 200,000 Chinese laborers embarked on a seemingly impossible task: to cut a 700-mile overland route -- the Burma Road -- from the southwest Chinese city of Kunming to Lashio, Burma. But when Burma fell in 1942, the Burma Road was severed. As the first step of the Allied offensive toward Japan, American general Joseph Stilwell reopened it, while, at the same time, keeping China supplied by air-lift from India and simultaneously driving the Japanese out of Burma. From the breathtaking adventures of the American "Hump" pilots who flew hair-raising missions over the Himalayas to make food-drops in China to the true story of the mission that inspired the famous film The Bridge on the River Kwai, to the grueling jungle operations of Merrill's Marauders and the British Chindit Brigades, The Burma Road vividly re-creates the sprawling, sometimes hilarious, often harrowing, and still largely unknown stories of one of the greatest chapters of World War II.
Author | : Don Moser |
Publisher | : Time Life Medical |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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A look at China, Burma and India during World War II.
Author | : Andrew Wax |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2010-08-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1443824550 |
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This researcher examined the evolution of warfare in an unforgiving environment, necessitating an innovative method of warfare never attempted on a large scale. It details the early history of air supply and support near the end of WWI up to and including the war in Europe in 1939 and the expanding war in Asia following the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and subsequent offensives in southeast Asia. The China-Burma-India Theater (CBI) became an important component of Allied efforts. Low in Allied priority, the difficulties encountered by the Southeast Asia Command (SEAC) increased. Burma, a British colony, was a region with few all-weather roads; the only rail lines available were in enemy hands 150 miles inside Japanese lines. Temperatures reached 110 degrees Fahrenheit with rainfall as much as 200 inches per year. Additionally, the nearest friendly seaport was more than 500 miles away. The Allied offensive, scheduled for the spring of 1944, incorporated a multi-pronged ground attack on three different Japanese fronts. To achieve success, it was essential to develop the only logical means of sustainability for ground forces: Air Supply and Support. Described herein are the efforts of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and the Royal Air Force (RAF), creating a singularly unique air unit: Air Commando 1. The coordination of Allied tactics and doctrines were worked out with a clear delineation of the chain of command. When Air Commando 1 arrived in India, the framework that became the Allied offensive, codenamed “Operation THURSDAY” was laid. For the survival of soldiers contracting one of the numerous diseases (Burma has the largest number of snakes per square mile) or suffering from combat related wounds and injuries, it was essential to receive quick medical attention. It was in the CBI that SEAC established an effective method of air evacuation that made the difference between life and death. The research unearthed most of the heretofore publicly unknown aspects of the campaign, explored in the author’s thesis, which indicate that the first sustained effort of air supply and support deep within enemy-held territory established a vital method of warfare deployed in subsequent wars.
Author | : Charles F. Romanus |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Burma |
ISBN | : 9780160882333 |
Download China-Burma-India Theater: Stilwell's Command Problems Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Søgeord: Y-Force; Kinesiske Hær; Kina; Wheeler, R.A.; Yu Fei-peng; Wavell; Japan, Japanske Styrker; US War Department; General Marshall; Stimson, H.L.; Trident; Krigshjælp; SEAC; Soong, T.V.; Somervell, B.B.; SOS, Services of Supply; Rangoon; Mountbatten; Magruder, J.; Lo Cho-ying; Ledo Road; MacArthur; McCloy, J.J.; Ho Ying-chin; Guerrillakrig; Burma Campaign; Currie, L.; CEF; Churchill; Chennault, C.L.; Wingate; Bissel, C.L.; Arnold, H.H.; Alexander, H.
Author | : Mark D. Sherry |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Stephen K. Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
Download MAGIC and ULTRA in the China-Burma-India Theater Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Charles F. Romanus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Stilwell's Mission to China Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Charles F. Romanus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
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Carrying the narrative from General Wedemeyer's assumption of command to the end of the war, this volume concludes with Americans still working to improve the Chinese Army while attempting to fly in sufficient supplies from India and Burma.
Author | : Maurer Maurer |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 1428915850 |
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