Delhi, Thursday February 8, 1945. |
INITIAL CHINA CONVOY ARRIVES IN KUNMING Roundup Field Correspondent |
FROM SULTAN "When the first convoy over the Ledo-Burma route entered China a great goal was achieved. Every unit in the India-Burma Theater, Ground Forces, Air Forces and Service Forces, American, Chinese, British, India and Kachin troops, has made its contribution to that achievement. Your magnificient work has been hailed by all the United Nations and will long be remembered." |
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Capt. Jack C. Ledford, right, B-29 pilot, receives congratulations from his group commander, Col. William H. Blanchard, upon receiving the Distinguished Service Cross. It is the highest combat award yet made to a member of the XX Bomber Command. |
In these intermissions, enlisted men artists would jump out of their cars with pen and pencils to sketch the G.I.'s and the surrounding scenes. They were T/Sgt. James Zornes, well-known painter, Cpl. Ted Sally, Los Angeles cartoonist and Cpl. Sydney Kotler, commercial artist in New York. Sally did the personalities, Kotler the scenery, Zornes both. The output of the three will be sent to the States for distribution among newspapers. |
Air Service Command has instituted the Service Chiefs award for men in this Theater who have
done something outstanding in the line of duty to keep the planes flying.
At right is S/Sgt. Edward R. Dillen of Cleveland, who displays part of the produce of his homemade foundry at an ASC
base. Dillen experimented to find a mixture of sand and molasses to conquer the molding problems, which had been the
chief bottleneck. He has improvised a foundry.
Below left, M/Sgt. James Melvin Boyd of Kyman, Tex., suh, was among the first admitted to the Chiefs club. He is an electrical wizard credited with designing special tools and test equipment to keep the overhaul line from bogging down. Below right, M/Sgt. William W. Johnston of Pennsylvania can show the signature of his commanding general on a Chief card because of his designing and construction of weld assemblies. He used them to substitute for standard procedure in addition to tow construction bars, cranes, special jigs and fixtures. |
Maj. Gen. Howard C. Davidson (standing) commanding general of the 10th Air Force, received a compliment for the way the combat ground troops had been supplied by planes of his unit from Lt. Gen. Dan I. Sultan India-Burma Theater commander. This picture was taken at the Burma headquarters of the 10th. Sultan told Davidson that without the aid of the 10th the success of the campaign to open The Road to China could not have been achieved. |
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