China Burma India Theater (CBI)

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Brooks, Howard Segment 3
On the evening of 28 February [Annotator's Note: 28 February 1942] they left the area they had been fighting in and...
Sherman, Richard Segment 3
Going overseas was quite the adventure for Sherman. Sherman stopped at numerous points throughout the war. He was a...
Henderson, William Segment 3
They got to the target [Annotator’s Note: Bridge on the River Kwai] at 9:00 in the morning and no other aircraft were...
McNeil, Esther Segment 3
McNeil went into the service on the 5th of February 1943. Her first posting was to Davis Martin Field and Air Force...
Disanza, William Segment 3
On a rainy day William Disanza would work around the house. He did a variety of odd jobs with odd solutions and trick...
Crump, Ralph Segment 3
All of the Catholic school teachers were nuns. They were not married. High school teachers in Iowa were required to be...
Cole, Richard Segment 3
[Annotators Note: Richard Cole served in the USAAF as a pilot flying B-25 Mitchell medium with the 17th Bombardment...
Brooks, Howard Segment 4
Brooks and the other sailor were loaded into the truck and taken to a small camp with other POWs. In the area were some...
Sherman, Richard Segment 4
When they finally stopped they were a couple feet away from a hut. The next morning there were people working on the...
Henderson, William Segment 4
They got to the target [Annotator’s Note: Burma railway] at 9:00 in the morning and no other aircraft were there. They...
McNeil, Esther Segment 4
In Ledo, McNeil saw every type of wound. She worked on GIs and on Chinese patients. She worked in the Chinese ward for...
Disanza, William Segment 4
William Disanza had trains and tanks on the deck of his ship. The train cars were too big to fit underneath the deck....
Crump, Ralph Segment 4
Crump had enrolled as a draftsman in the local aircraft plant but in the meantime several of the shipyards had posted...
Cole, Richard Segment 4
As a child in Dayton, Ohio Richard Cole was only a half hour bike ride from McCook Army Airfield where he would go to...
Brooks, Howard Segment 5
The first place Brooks was taken to was a building. The men were fed once a day by the natives who brought them soup....
Sherman, Richard Segment 5
Sherman was going to hit a target on Formosa. They took off and flew practically at sea level. When they got back to...
Henderson, William Segment 5
Their first dive bombing mission was a railroad trestle in Burma. Henderson lined up over his bomb sight. He dropped...
McNeil, Esther Segment 5
The patients McNeil treated were good and were grateful for every little thing the nurses did.The nurses would sit and...
Disanza, William Segment 5
William Disanza was happy to straighten the propeller issue out and get a new one back on. That was an experience they...
Crump, Ralph Segment 5
Crumps dad was making 90 cents an hour. A dime was a big difference in those days. Gasoline was 10 cents a gallon and a...
Cole, Richard Segment 5
They were two days at sea when the PA system came on informing them that the group was headed for Tokyo [Annotators...
Brooks, Howard Segment 6
The Japanese kept the Americans and British in separate groups until they started working on the railroad.The food was...
Sherman, Richard Segment 6
There were 2 machine guns to the left of the pilot. There were 3 guns on the right side plus a swivel gun in the nose...
Henderson, William Segment 6
In September Henderson was on a flight to China as navigator. He was with a crew that had to bail out on the flight...
McNeil, Esther Segment 6
McNeil doesn't think that her time in the army changed her life in any way. She was able to see the world.She feels...
Disanza, William Segment 6
[Annotators Note: William DiSanza served in the army and was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, and...
Crump, Ralph Segment 6
Crump stayed in the shipyard for the better part of a year. They had launched about 14 ships. The launching details had...
Cole, Richard Segment 6
Richard Cole heard that some of the aircraft had cameras on them but his was not one of them. The picture of Doolittle...
Brooks, Howard Segment 7
The men got up before daylight and took their mess kits and lined up for some soup. Then they immediately lined up in...
Sherman, Richard Segment 7
Sherman had helped to set up many of the dirt revetments. The Chinese had helped as well. Each revetment was high...
Henderson, William Segment 7
They would listen to Tokyo Rose [Annotator’s Note: English-speaking women broadcasters of Japanese propaganda]when they...
Disanza, William Segment 7
William Disanza was in one group of guys but they had multiple outfits in Burma. There was an outfit called the 101...
Crump, Ralph Segment 7
Crump came back after the war to visit some of his buddies. He got there the very day they were floating the ship. They...
Cole, Richard Segment 7
Once they [Annotators Note: Richard Cole, James Doolittle, and the crewmen aboard their B-25 which had just taken part...
Brooks, Howard Segment 8
Brooks never once had any contact with the Red Cross. At 1 point they were each issued 1 item out of a Red Cross parcel...
Sherman, Richard Segment 8
Sherman believes that everyone should know a little bit about every theater. Sherman believes that the generosity and...

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