[fred cook]

My dad served in the CBI (China, Burma, India) theater for about 2 and 1/2 years. He was an officer in a supply outfit that moved all kinds of supplies, ammunition, fuel, etc, from India, through Burma and then on to Kunming China for the Nationalist army. I was looking thru some of his army documents yesterday and found a letter of commendation that I had never seen before. Seems he had taken a convoy from Ledo to Mitkyna to Kunming without losing any vehicles or supplies. The convoy left Ledo in August of 1945 and was likely the last or one of the last to make the trip. The route was over the "Stilwell" road to Mitkyna, Burma and then up the Burma road to Kunming. Some of these roads had a hundred or more switchbacks a mile with no room to pass sometimes for 20 miles or so. The trip from Ledo to Kunming took about a month or more but was the fastest way to get the supplies there. The "Greatest Generation" indeed!