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Rails of war : supplying the Americans and their allies in China-Burma-India / Steven James Hantzis.
Van Pelt Library DS777.533.T73 H36 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hantzis, Steven James, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hantzis, James Harry, 1920-1976.
- Hantzis, James Harry.
- United States. Army. Railway Operating Battalion, 721st.
- United States.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Transportation.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Participation, American.
- Military railroads--China--History--20th century.
- Military railroads.
- Military railroads--Burma--History--20th century.
- Military railroads--India--History--20th century.
- Soldiers--United States--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- History.
- Transportation.
- India.
- Burma.
- China.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii199 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Lincoln] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- SS Mariposa
- Leaving Bombay
- Indian rails
- To Parbatipur
- Air raid
- The Ledo Road
- Relay
- First encounters
- Inside the 721st
- Merrill's Marauders
- Company B
- Fire
- Mutaguchi's gift
- The Battle of Kohima
- After the storm
- Inbound
- Material inferiority
- Monsoon
- The Siege of Myitkyina
- A ghost in the yards
- Kaunia Junction
- Brothers
- Japanese retrench
- Medic! Medic!
- Stepping up
- Another Christmas
- Milepost 103
- The road less traveled
- Toy train to Shangri-la
- Crossing Irrawaddy
- The home fires
- Blue flag
- Coupled up
- The new president
- Endgame
- Above Rangoon Jail
- Germany surrenders
- Discharge
- The conductor
- Around the world
- Departure
- Christmas 1945.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hantzis, Steven James, author. Rails of war.
- ISBN:
- 9781612348537
- 161234853X
- OCLC:
- 975270211
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