China-Burma-India Theater News on the Homefront

Introduction     In 1941, while war raged in Europe, most Americans preferred the country remain neutral and isolated from the conflict. That all changed on December 7th when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and declared war on the United States. Just about every American was involved in the war, either being called to service in the armed forces, working in war production or other supporting roles. There were plenty of Moms who saw their sons off to some far-off place to fight. One such mom of Kansas City, Missouri, Josephine Smith Davis, saved newspaper articles about where her son was serving in a scrapbook. That place was the China-Burma-India Theater and her son was Lt. Col. Charles S. Davis. Below are the scrapbook pages filled with the CBI-related newspaper clippings she saved. For more about Col. Davis and his service in CBI -  CLICK HERE  Viewing Instructions     Scroll down to view individual pages of the scrapbook. Click on the displayed page to open a new window with an enlarged image of that page. This image is more easily readable being 175% the size of the original. You can scroll up/down/left/right. Click on the image to close the window and return to this main page. Note that each page can be several scans pieced together and there may be some distortion where the scans were joined. To view all pages expanded -  CLICK HERE  Scroll down or click this box to continue to first page

The scrapbook contains 9 pages from LIFE magazine To view the LIFE pictorial -  CLICK HERE

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