Register of the Paul LeRoy Jones papers
Finding aid prepared by Beth Goder
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: Paul LeRoy Jones papers
Date (inclusive): 1928-1994
Collection Number: 80149
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
6 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 card file box, 1 oversize folder
(5.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The collection contains photographs, press releases, clippings, speeches, orders, maps, and a diary relating to Allied military
activities in the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II and to General Joseph W. Stilwell.
Creator:
Jones, Paul LeRoy, 1906-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1980.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Paul LeRoy Jones papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
| 1906 |
Born |
| 1920s, circa |
Radio communicator in San Diego and San Francisco |
| 1928 October - 1929 June |
Cadet, United States Air Corps |
| 1929, circa |
Accepted a reserve commission in the Chemical Warfare Service of the United States Air Corps |
| 1941 April |
Joined 7th Division, Infantry, United States Army |
| 1941 August |
Assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion (heavy weapons company) |
| 1942 February, circa |
Worked as a railroad operations officer |
| |
Promoted to captain |
| 1942 March |
Appointed liaison and courier to the Chinese 5th and 6th Armies |
| |
Traveled to India and Burma |
| 1942 May |
Participated in Joseph Stilwell's Burma walkout |
| 1942 June |
Promoted to major |
| 1942 October |
Appointed headquarters commandant and assistant to the acting assistant, G-4, acting as a transportation officer, possibly
for Services of Supply (S.O.S.)
|
| 1943 October |
Promoted to lieutenant colonel |
| 1943-1944, circa |
Oversaw delivery of supplies for Services of Supply (S.O.S.), China Defense Supplies |
| |
Member of CBI Radio Team |
| |
Public relations officer, China-Burma-India Theater |
| 1944 |
Received Bronze Star |
| 1944 December |
Returned to United States |
| 1945 |
Worked for the Office of Information Services for Army Ground Forces, Public Relations |
| 1945 September-October |
Public relations work in Okinawa, Japan |
| 1945 November |
Returned to civilian life in California while remaining in the Army Reserves |
Sources:
CBI Roundup, June 22, 1944, and November 9, 1944. Accessed through CBI Theater: http://cbi-theater-1.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater-1/roundup/roundup062244.html
Jones, Paul L. "The Withdrawal from Burma and the Stilwell Walkout."
Ex-CBI Roundup, May 1992. Accessed through CBI Theater: http://cbi-theater-3.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater-3/stilwellpages/stilwell_walkout.html
Scope and Content of Collection
Consisting mainly of photographs, the Paul LeRoy Jones papers relate to Allied military activities in the China-Burma-India
Theater in World War II, the Burma walkout in 1942, and General Joseph W. Stilwell.
The
China-Burma-India Theater file includes the transcript of a diary that Jones kept from 1941 to 1945 documenting his experience in the China-Burma-India
Theater and his interactions with General Stilwell. . The diary includes entries from May 1942, when Jones participated in
the walkout through Burma to India led by General Stilwell. In the diary, Jones discusses his work with transportation of
supplies, radio broadcasting programs, and his responses to world events. Explanatory notes, which Jones made at a later date,
can be found throughout the diary. This file also includes documents by and about Stilwell, such as correspondence, clippings,
press releases, statements by Stilwell, and the typescript "The Stilwell Story" by Finis Farr.
Jones held various jobs during the war that required him to travel extensively in the China-Burma-India Theater. Since he
was assisting the Signal Corps, Jones was allowed to take photographs during his assignments. The
Photographs contain images of areas where Jones was stationed, the construction of the Ledo Road, and Joseph Stilwell. Photographs that
were previously separated still retain their original groupings in envelopes and have been integrated into the collection.
Additional photographs can be found in the
Scrapbooks. The collection contains a scrapbook documenting the Burma walkout, which contains photographs, diary entries, and a map
with a red line marking the walkout path. The second scrapbook documents Jones' time in Assam, where he was in charge of materials
from China Defense Supplies that went over "The Hump." The third scrapbook concerns the surrender of Ryukyus Islands at Tenth
Army Headquarters on Okinawa.
Related Materials
China Defense Supplies records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Claire Lee Chennault papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Frank Dorn papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Henrietta Thompson processed volume, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Jack Silvey motion picture film, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Jesse Conn Miller photographs, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
John N. Hart letters received, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Joseph Warren Stilwell papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
William E. R. Covell papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945 -- China
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma
United States. Army
Stilwell, Joseph Warren, 1883-1946
China-Burma-India Theater File
1928-1994
Scope and Contents note
Includes press releases, clippings, speeches, orders, maps, and transcript of Jones' diary. Arranged alphabetically by format.
box 1, folder 1
Claire Chennault's retirement
1945
box 5
Oversize magazine clippings
1942-1944
Scope and Contents note
Includes
Life article by Clare Booth Luce
box 1, folder 4-5
Diary of Paul L. Jones
1941-1945
Scope and Contents note
Typed transcript, includes notes
box 1, folder 8-11
Stilwell, Joseph
1942-1994
box 1, folder 12
General
1941-1986, undated
box 1, folder 13
Engineer in the Far East: Memoirs of World War II in China, Burma and India
1984
Scope and Contents note
Includes letter
Photographs
1942-1945
Scope and Contents note
Includes black and white photographic prints, negatives, and slides. Arranged by format, with two groups of photographs. Includes
photographs previously listed in the Hoover photograph card catalog. See also Scrapbooks.
Photographs previously separated
1941-1946
Scope and Contents note
Originally listed in the Hoover photograph card catalog
box 2, folder 3
Envelope A. 12 prints of military facilities in India, 1943; 18 prints of air base at Kweilin, China, 1944
box 2, folder 4
Envelope B. 61 prints of Kunming, China, including exercises with Chinese soldiers, 1944; 13 prints of Chungking, China, 1942-1943;
9 prints of funeral arrangements of Lin Shen, 1943; 4 prints of Chinese troops in Burma, 1944, undated
box 2, folder 5-6
Envelope C and D. 97 prints relating to the construction of the Ledo Road, Burma, 1943-1944; 18 prints of facilities and troops
in Burma, 1944
box 3, folder 1
Envelope E. 59 prints relating to the Battle of Myitkyina and the jungle training facility and general area after the battle,
Burma, 1944
box 3, folder 2
Envelope F. 42 prints of Chinese soldiers at training facility in Rangarh, India, 1943; 9 prints of construction of an air
base at Cheng Tu, China, 1944; 3 prints (unidentified) in the China-Burma-India Theater
circa 1942-1945
box 3, folder 3-5
Envelope G, H and I. 105 prints of Joseph Stilwell, William Bergin, Chiang Kai-shek, Chou En-lai, Chu Teh, Claire Chennault,
John Dill, Patrick Hurley, Douglas MacArthur, Mao Tse-tung, Frank Merrill, Brehon Somervell, Daniel I. Sultan, and others
1941-1945
box 3, folder 6
Envelope J. 15 prints of Joseph Stilwell with his family; 6 prints of Stilwell touring a Chrysler tank factory
1945
box 4, folder 1
Envelope K. 16 negatives of the 73rd Evacuation Hospital in North Burma, 1944; 26 negatives of Joseph Stilwell, Claire Chennault,
and others
1942-1946
Photographs retained with collection
1942-1945
box 4, folder 4
Chinese military cemetery near Kunming, China
1944
box 4, folder 5
Chinese troops near Ledo Road
undated
box 4, folder 6-9
Chungking, China
1942-1944
Scope and Contents note
Includes headquarters
box 4, folder 10
Chungking, China, and Washington, D.C.
circa 1943, 1945
box 4, folder 11
Japanese surrender at Okinawa
1945
Scope and Contents note
Includes letter. See also Scrapbooks
box 4, folder 12
Kunming, China
1943, undated
box 4, folder 14
Mandalay, Burma
1942
Scope and Contents note
Includes one print of area after bombing
box 4, folder 15
Maymyo, Burma
1942
Scope and Contents note
Currently named Pyin U Lwin
box 4, folder 17
Stilwell, Joseph (includes "Uncle Joe's Chariot," Chungking and Kandy Ceylon)
1944, undated
box 4, folder 18
War correspondents and photographers who went on first B-29 raid from Cheng Tu, China
1944
Negatives
1942-1944, undated
box 4, folder 20
Stilwell; Bill Bergin; CBI Headquarters in Chungking
undated
box 6
Assam, India and Kunming, China
undated
Scope and Contents note
Roll of negatives
box 6
Bombing mission, 10th Air Force
undated
Scope and Contents note
See China-Burma-India Theater file, diary. Roll of negatives
box 6
China, Chungking. Chinese temples. Ledo Road. India general
1942-1944
Scope and Contents note
Roll of 35 mm negatives
box 6
Ledo Road
undated
Scope and Contents note
Roll of negatives
box 6
P38 and [P51] planes at an air base in India
circa 1944
Scope and Contents note
Roll of negatives
box 6
Stilwell (Ledo) Road under construction
circa 1944
Scope and Contents note
undated
Scrapbooks
1942-1991
Scope and Contents note
Includes three scrapbooks containing photographs, memoranda, reports, correspondence, maps, a badge, and clippings.
box 7, folder 2-3
Photographs
1942, undated
box 7, folder 4
Transcript of diary entries, notes, maps, clippings, book excerpts
1942-1987
Services of Supply, China Defense Supplies in Assam
1942-1991, undated
box 8
Photographs, map, badge, original housing
1942-1944, undated
Scope and Contents note
Housed in oversize box
box 9, folder 1
Photographs, correspondence, and other documents
1942-1944, undated
map_case
Clipping on the Burma Road
1991
U.S. Tenth Army and surrender of Ryukyus Islands at Tenth Army Headquarters on Okinawa
1945, undated
box 9, folder 2
Excerpts from letters to Winifred Stilwell
1945
box 9, folder 3-5
Photographs
1945, undated
map_case
Okinawa Shima maps
undated
Declassified U.S. government records
Scope and Contents
Formerly security-classified records of the U.S. government, released in full or in part. Arranged chronologically by date
of release by Hoover, thereunder by date of creation.
box 9, folder 6-7
Records released in 2013
1944
