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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.
 

Clippings

box 1, folder 1

Claire Chennault's retirement 1945

box 1, folder 2

China 1946

box 1, folder 3

China and Japan 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 6

Maps 1943, undated

map_case 

Map of Burma undated

box 1, folder 7

Orders 1928-1945

 

Subject file

box 1, folder 8-11

Stilwell, Joseph 1942-1994

 

Wetzel, Nevin

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
box 2, folder 1-2

Miscellany 1942, 1944

 

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 2

Burma 1944, undated

box 4, folder 3

[Cheng Tu Air Base] 1943

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 13

Kweilin Air Base 1944

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 16

Myitkyina air strip 1944

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

box 4, folder 19

Slides undated

 

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.
 

Burma walkout 1942-1987

box 7, folder 1

Original housing undated

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