Oral history interview with Dr. Robert B. Toulouse, 2000 January 27
- Resource Type:
- Manuscript (Paper)
- Publication:
- 2000
- Serial Holdings:
- Shelved in Oral History Transcripts Collection, University Archives.
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- Summary:
- Interview with Dr. Robert B. Toulouse, a college administrator and Army Air Forces veteran (301st Air Depot Group), concerning his experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Induction into the Army, June, 1941; basic training, Camp Roberts, California; Officer Candidate School, Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, July-September, 1942; his transfer to the Army Air Forces after OCS and assignment to the 14th Air Depot Group, 1942; reassignment to the 301st Air Depot Group, 1944; stationing at Kunming, China, 1944; his journey on the Burma Road; comments about the Chinese civilian population in Kunming; comments about Chinese warlords and their relationship with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces; his functions as a maintenance and supply officer in Kunming, February-December, 1945; his role in turning over the base and its equipment to the Chinese Nationalist government after the war.
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- Languages:
- English
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- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Interview conducted in 2000 for the World War II China-Burma-India Theater Oral History Project. Interviewer: Peter B. Lane.
- Physical Description:
- 68 leaves ; 29 cm
- Call Numbers:
- OH 1332
- OCLC Numbers:
- 325239713