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Summary:
- Interview with John R. Leber, an Army Air Forces veteran (317th Troop Carrier Squadron), concerning his experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Stateside training in California, Nebraska, and Texas; description of trip in C-46 from Savannah to Labrador, to Newfoundland, to Greenland, to Iceland, to Scotland, to southern France, to Egypt, to Saudi Arabia, to Karachi; descriptions of local culture as part of "The Great Adventure"; assignment to Ledo, Burma, and evacuation of troops and supplies after the war; his feelings about the dropping of the atomic bomb; contraction of dysentery and hospitalization in Kunming, China; flying "The Hump"; everyday camp life at Ledo; short assignment to Hsian, China, and Salua, India; sightseeing in Calcutta and observations of local culture and customs; the trip home to the U. S. by way of Manila and across the Pacific to San Francisco; postwar adjustments to civilian life. Appendix includes one hundred twenty-six leaves of personal letters.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Interview conducted in 1999 for the Rivertown at War oral History Project. Interviewer: Dr. Ronald E. Marcello, Professor of History, University of North Texas.
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Physical Description:
- 72 pages, 126 unnumbered leaves : facsimiles ; 29 cm
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Call Numbers:
- OH 1274
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OCLC Numbers:
- 318465137