Boats and trucks sit along the banks of a river on the Ledo Road in 1945
Gift In Memory of Billie and Marjorie Casey
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Photograph. One of more than two hundred bridges along the Ledo Road. Boats and trucks sit along the banks of a river on the Ledo Road in 1945. Probably in Burma.
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1945
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Billie R. Casey had never been outside of Texas when he enlisted in the U.S. Army at Houston on 27 Jan 1943. During his service in WWII in the Army's 1905 Engineer Aviation Battalion he spent time in New York, Rio de Janeiro, India, and Burma where his battalion joined other groups in the construction of the Ledo Road. The collection consists of 284 photographs from Casey's service with the 1905th Engineer Aviation Battalion in the China-Burma-India Theater.
Geography:
Myanma
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22.000
Longitude:
98.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Bridges--Burma
Rivers--Burma
Trucks--American--Burma