IBT Roundup - February 21, 1946 - China-Burma-India Theater of World War II

LT. LIMKE WINS I.B. APPROVAL

When the Red Cross's "Duration Den" in New Delhi held a Valentine's Day photograph contest last week the choice of a 100 percent enlisted men electorate proved to be none other than an officer - Lt. Virginia M. Linke, of the Bronx, New York City.
The "Looey" is a member of the Army Nurses Corps, now stationed on a Navy hospital ship en route to Japan. She is the financee of T/4 Lawrence J. Kavanaugh of Fanwood, New Jersey, until this week with Signal Supply at I-B headquarters and now on his way to the boat going home.
The photo shows Lt. Linke as she graduated from nursing school, which is a degree ahead of the prospective groom for Kavanaugh's going back to Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. to finish out his liberal arts course.
The officer will become an enlisted man's wife in either April or May and as soon as the groom finishes school it'll be either the Bronx or New Jersey for a permanent address.

Vol. IV, No. 24 Delhi, Thursday, Feb. 21, 1946. Reg. No. L5015

TOO YOUNG TO KNOW

Taking time out from the Too Young To Know movie set is Dolores Moran, already seen in the Theater. Draw your own conclusions.

I-B STRENGTH MAR. 1
ESTIMATED AT 19,000
Roundup Staff Article
The total strength of the I-B Theater will be spproximately 19,000 officers and men as of Mar. 1, after the General Hodges leaves on that day. Theater Headquarters spokesmen told the Roundup this week. About 6,500 more personnel are scheduled to leave during March aboard two troopships.
Despite the civian disturbances in Calcutta last week, the movement of men from Replacement Depot No.3 at Kanchrapara waqs carried out without delay. However, an unusually shallow channel in the Hooghly River due to the drought forced the troopships to move strictly according to the changes in tides.

WAC VOLUNTEERS
SOUGHT IN I-B
Due to a critical shortage of skilled personnel available, WAC officers and EW with usable skills are being encouraged to volunteer for retrntion in the service, chiefly in the U.S.
WAC enlisted personnel may volunteer as Category R1, 2, 3, or 4, or for service until Sept. 30. WAC officers are being encouraged to volunteer for service until Sept. 30 as Category R4 volunteers.

   The General Bliss sailed for Seattle last Sunday and the General Collins was to pull up anchor yesterday.
   The schedule of shipping is as follows: General Hodges, departing Mar. 1; Marine Jumper, Mar. 16; Marine Cardinal, Mar. 24. Each of these vessels carries about 3,200 passengers and all will go to Seattle. Formerly these troopships were calling at Colombo, Ceylon, for refueling, but now they are stopping at Manila en route to the U.S.
  Quotas from the major commands will be announced soon, in time to fill the Jumper and the Cardinal. It is planned to delay the movement of returnees from other parts of the Theater to Kanchrapara until a week or ten days before sailing time, to prevent men from waiting around the depot longer than necessary.

Terry Goes To Hospital In U.S.

     Maj. Gen. Vernon Evans is the temporary commander of the India-Burma Theater this week following the departure of Maj. Gen. Thomas A. Terry, Commanding General, for the U.S. where he will undergo further treatment of injuries suffered in a motor accident Feb. 6.
  Terry was released from the 100th Station Hospital, New Delhi, on Feb. 12, after being treated for a mild concussion of the scalp and minor abrasions. Theater Headquarters spokesmen said his progress has not been as rapid as expected and he requires convalescence under more favorable conditions in the U.S.
   Evans, the Chief of Staff, will be in temporary command of the Theater.
   The tall, brown-haired general has been Chief of Staff of the I-B Theater sonce the division of the CBI Theater in October, 1944. He first came to the CBI as a brigadier general in November, 1943, 27 months ago and was originally on the headquarters staff in Chungking. In February, 1944, he was ordered to Delhi as Deputy Chief of Staff of CBI.
   The temporary Theater Commander is the son of a Regular Army officer, and was born at Fort Wayne, an Army post at Detroit, Mich. He grew up on Army posts and was appointed to West Point, graduating in the class of 1913.
   Commissioned a second lieutenant, Evans served during World War I and was promoted to captain. During the succeeding peacetime years he continued to rise in rank and early in World War II was made a brigadier general. His family is in the U.S.
   The acting chief of the Theater told a Roundup reporter in his office this week that the present situation is only temporary. He emphasized that Terry is still the Theater Commander and as the senior officer in India-Burma, he is only acting in that capacity in Terry's absence. Col. H. C. Donnelly is the Deputy Chief of Staff.

CALCUTTA   BAN   ENDS
AS DISTURBANCES STOP

BY SGT. RAT SCHWARTZ    Roundup Staff Writer
    CALCUTTA - The city of Calcutta returned to normal early this week following the sustained civil disturbances and incidents of mob violence last week which left a total of 37 American soldiers injured and five GI vehicles destroyed by fire.
   Gradual relaxation of the U.S. military curfew was ordered over the weekend by Major J. J. Gussak, provost marshal for the Base Section. Personnel were permitted to move freely after

MESSAGE FROM WILSON    CALCUTTA - Brig. Gen. Walter K. Wilson Jr., Commanding General of Base Section issued the following statement to Roundup this week.
   "I would liked to take this opportunity to express my appreciation of the conduct of U.S. personnel in Calcutta during the recent disturbances.
  "The military police in particular did an excellent job in a difficult situation without serious repercussions, and the cooperation of all enlisted and officer personnel in complying with the restrictions which were necessary has prevented any unnecessary damage or hurt to ourselves and our property."

five days of controlled travel and restriction at home stations after 6 P.M. each day. Movements from outside the city confined to urgent business and emergencies during the disorders, also were being resumed.
   The main portion of American casualties occurred last Wednesday (Feb. 13) when a convoy of casuals were being rushed to town from Kanchrapara to board the Marine Angel, troop transport overdue at the Calcutta port. The total injured was reported at 19.
  Three of them required hospitalization though two were discharged in time for the ship's departure. The third, Pfc. Max Benton, was placed under two weeks confinement at the 142nd General Hospital for a cerebral concussion.
  That attack on the convoy was the outstanding incident involving American troops. (See also eyewitness account below.-Ed.)
  Other casualties during the riots were mainly members of the 275th MP Co. but only one was regarded as serious. Officials at Base Section headquarters persistently denied rumors of any American deaths and the provost marshal reiterated that any use of force by American troops was not intended to quell the disturbances but was adopted primarily for the protection of U.S. personnel.
  "We did use firearms in some cases." explained Gussak, but absolutely no civilians were injured by American firearms. "Because of the November riots, which found an American truck driver burned to death in his vehicle, we took precautions this time to check every burning vehicle for possible American occupants.
  "Crowds would surround the parked MP Jeeps and the men sometimes would be required to use tear gas or to fire shots into the air in order to extricate themselves from the center of the mobs.
  "Also, at no time did we attempt to force our way into the middle of any crowds. Steps were taken to ensure that no U.S. lives would be put in jeopardy unnecessarily. We carried out our order to the letter," Cossack said.
  While virtually all missiles hurled at Americans were either rocks or bricks, three MPs did report that they were attacked with what appeared to be a homemade bomb while doing normal reconnaissance duty last Thursday night. The trio were Col. David Lewis, Cpl. C. C. Manby and Pfc. A. E. Breidenbach.
  In their report, they explained that the charge landed directly beneath their scout car on Circular Road just north of Gray St. The explosion caused the car to rise in the air, but no damage was done and they continued on their way.
  It was a hectic week for the Calcutta MPs, starting with the first outbreak of violence on Monday night, Men stationed in town were quickly ordered to their billeting areas, while the military police began an overwhelming job of rounding up 1,100 U.S. troops who were in Calcutta from bases outside the city.
  The roundup, from restaurants, cabarets, theaters, etc., was finally accomplished and the 1,100 men were escorted to sleeping quarters at the Dhakuria transient camp and the 142nd General hospital. Their vehicles, which totaled about 180 of all types, were placed under guard at the Dufferin motor park.

CONVOY FORMED
  Early in the morning Lt. Virgil Carlson, an M.P. officer, arranged the 180 vehicles for convoy to return the men to their proper station. The convoy was placed under the direction of Lt. Robert Schmidt, another M.P. officer. A mob had started to erect a road barricade at five points, a five-way intersection branching to outlying districts, but Lt. Schmidt managed to force the barricade and get the entire group of 1,100 through without mishap.
  Thus, by noontime Tuesday, all men had been returned to their proper stations and the Calcutta MP's had their work reduced to controlling the troops stationed in town. By that time, none MP's had received hurts necessitating dispensary treatment, and one, T/5 Edgar M. Whitman had bee hit with a brick which fractured his jaw and knocked out two teeth.
  When the riots failed to abate on Tuesday, all radio jeeps on normal duty were ordered off the streets, since their presence seemed to aggravate the situation. Military police were only detailed for convoy duty and reconnaissance, and only a few minor hurts were reported between that time and the ambush of the Kanchrapara convoy on Wednesday afternoon.
  Violence continued on Thursday, but in more moderate fashion, and there were no reports of Americans being hurt. The entire demonstration had petered out by Friday, though curfew was maintained until Saturday.

Old Glory Burned
In Bombay Street
By Indian Sailors

Roundup Staff Article

    BOMBAY - More than 200 Royal Indian Navy lower ratings in uniform, demonstrating on the streets here Tuesday, tore down an American flag, burned it, and hit a U.S. Army sergeant with a shovel, injuring him slightly., the U.S. Information Service reports.
  The Indian sailors, having gone on strike in HIMS Taqlwar, the Communications Training Establishment here, formed a procession and were proceeding along Hornby Road at about 9:25 a.m.
  As they were passing the National City Bank of New York building, which is shared by the U.S. Information Service, the noticed an American flag hanging on a staff over the entrance to the Information Service office.

TEAR DOWN FLAG AND RIP IN TWO
  The group halted momentarily, while the ratings stood on each others shoulders, tore down the flag, and ripped it in two. Then they lighted newspapers and burned up the flag in the street.
  An unidentified American sergeant, who was passing in a jeep in front of the building was hiot with a shovel, and the windshield bearing an American flag was smash out. The sergeant was little injured. No anti-American cries were heard.
  The whole incident took only ten minutes and then the mob moved on down the street two blocks where they tried to enter the American Express Company office. However the manager locked the door in the face of the mob and no damage was done.
  Meantime, another group of the ratings grabbed four British Army officers out of Lloyd's Bank across the street and beat them up.
  Police were trying to direct traffic near the scene and did not interfere. Some Indian civilians followed the Navy men but took no part in the demonstration.

FOREIGN SECRETARY EXPRESSES REGRET
  In New Delhi, the Foreign Secretary of the Government of India, Hugh Weightman, expressed great regret at reports of the incident, and said the Government of India is causing an investigation to be made.
  Tuesday afternoon it was reported that all men who had taken part in the affair were back in their barracks.
  An American newspaperman said in a subsequent report Tuesday evening that the demonstration, which observers believe is against British leadership, was continuing to spread throughout the city. He declared that personnel aboard Royal Indian Navy ships in the harbor were out of hand.

257 Lots Of Surplus Property Sold To Individuals

VET TAKES WIFE'S PLACE

Mrs. Florence Barbour bids her husband Everett C. Barbour and their two-year-old daughter, Benny Jo, goodbye as she leaves for work in Portland, Me. Facing the loss of his apartment because of unemployment, Barbour, a discharged veteran, swapped places with his wife and took over the housekeeping. (Press Ass'n.)

U.S. Requests Shipping Data

    CHUNGKING - (UP) - As observers forecast this week that Russians troops may remain in Manchuria a long time instead of withdrawing on schedule, the U.S. asked China to clarify reports that the Russians are shipping Manchurian industries as war booty, reliable sources stated this week. Unofficial sources said that a similar request has been sent to Russia.
  Chungking quarters said that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has expressed some concern to the U.S. the fact that Russians are remaining in Manchuria, China has been keeping America informed of developments there, sources stated. It has not yet replied to the American note requesting information.
  Conversations between Russia and China regarding further economic concessions for the Russians in Manchuria are in progress both at Chungking and Changchun.

Book Value Set
At $12,000,000
By Local FLC
Roundup Staff Article
    NEW DELHI - A "book value" total of $6,000,000 worth of U.S. surplus property in odd lots in India as well as $6,000,000 worth of armor plate have been sold to individual buyers, a spokesman for the Foreign Liquidation Commission told Roundup this week.
  This property, itemized in 257 lots of hundreds of articles each in Public Sales Catalogue No.1, represented all items for sale by the FLC except the balance of surplus property which has been earmarked for the Government of India and which is still under negotiation, originally valued at approximately $300,000,000.
  A third category of U.S. property in the I-B Theater includes food, clothing and other materials which the U.S. Army is keeping for its own needs.
  Negotiations for the sale of the larger part of the property to the Government of India are still underway, but definite progress has been made and final agreement on the huge sale may be reached shortly, the spokesman declared. This would complete the mission of the FLC in this Theater after months of activity since the war ended.
  Chief items in the property sold to individuals were:
  (1) About 1,900 miles of oil pipeline, running from Calcutta to Tinsukia in Assam, and from Tinsukia down to Chittagon, east of Calcutta on the Bay of Bengal, has been sold and is in the ground. This was with the understanding that it will be used only for scrap.
  (2) Four drum plants, one located at Tezgaon and three at Madras, for the manufacture of 5 and 42-gallon steel drums. Only the machinery, material and equipment used in the making of drums was sold, as the buildings housing the U.S. equipment were leased from private owners.
  (3) A total of 8,155 tons of armor plate, with a list value of $3,000,000 has been sold to an individual.
  The remainder of the 237 lots of property included everything from suntan lotion to chewing tobacco. Items large and small, located all over India, were all given list prices and sold to purchasers under sealed bids at prices up to those listed.
  Harness snaps, barges, greases and oils, photographic paper, engineering equipment, automobile parts, and thousands of other items were sold.
  On Jan. 10, FLC announced that it had disposed of all its surplus property in Burma. A 400-mile pipe line, Butler bridges, trucks, bulldozers, tractors, graders, horses, mules, tenting and thousands of other items were included in that group of sales, for an announced total figure of "considerably less" that the estimated $500,000,000 involved in the Indian Government deal.
  The 1,627-foot Irrawaddy bridge at Myitkyina was given to the Government of Burma as an international goodwill gesture by the U.S. Army. Negotiations at that time were made by local FLC officers under guidelines of FLC officials in New Delhi.
  The sale of all U.S. property in Ceylon is expected to be completed shortly.
  On Dec. 24 last, the basis on an agreement between FLC and the Government of India was reached. Under this agreement, some 500,000 items, representing all surplus property except unobligated property, will be turned over to the Indian Government. Since then negotiations have been underway to arrange final sales price, conditions of transfer and method of payment.
  Originally, before the bulk commitment to the Indian Government, sales were carried out through FLC local agencies throughout India under a sealed bid system, after the articles had been offered to the various property groups, U.S. Governmental agencies, charitable institutions and representatives of American branded goods - in that order - had priority over the Government of India and the general public in buying these articles.
  After these groups has made their selections, which comprised only a small part of the total, the great number of items remaining were either earmarked for the Indian Government of sold to the public.

Over $9,000 Donated Here Roundup Staff Article

    Enlisted men and officers of the India-Burma Theater contributed more man $9,000 to the "March of Dimes" Infantile Paralysis Fund during the campaign which closed here recently, Lt. Col. G. D. Born, local campaign liaison officer, disclosed this week.
  The largest individual amount contributed was $3,026.27, received from the Calcutta American Officer's Mess. The largest check received was one for $3,664.19, which represented contributions handled by the Base Section Personnel Services office.
  Personnel of Assam Area Headquarters units gave $595.57 while I-B Theater Headquarters units reported contributions of $502.44. AAF Headquarters reported contributions of $389.27.
  Several dances were held in the Base Section area for the purpose of collecting funds.

NURSERY SHIP ARRIVES IN NEW YORK

Arriving in New York aboard the S.S. Argentina the first contingent of British brides and babies of GI's formerly stationed in England come down the gangplank. In all they number 456 wives and 170 babies and they're going to 45 different states. (INP)

Calcutta Rodeo Set
For Coming Weekend

CALCUTTA - Theater cowboys, who lost a round to the local Indians last weekend, will attempt to conduct their two-day rodeo this Saturday and Sunday at the Special Service Riding Academy in Alipore.

  The civil disturbance caused this week's postponement of the Wild West event. In fact, the boys were ever so willing to concede to the Wild East.
  One of the more active competitors will be Theo N. Oviatt, who hails from Elmo, Utah, and is now in the 289th Port Co. here. Oviatt - a veteran of rodeos in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado - has signed for the bareback mule riding, the steer riding, calf roping, bulldogging, and wild cow milking. Quite an afternoon's work.
  Facing the southwest contingent is Reynald B. Luchini of Derry, N.M., who has done the New Mexico, Texas and Arizona events. He's ticketed for the mule riding, calf roping and wild cow milking.
  Other entrants are as follows: Milton A. Krauser, Victoria, Tex., and the 691st Engineers; George H. MacMurray, Rawlins, Wyo., and Base Section Hq. Co.; Alvin Pratt, Enterprise, Ore., and 288th Port Co.; Curris A. Price, Palo Pinuto, Tex., and the 1786th Engineers.
  Tex McCannell, Dublin, Tex., and the 497th Port Bn.; Seth N. Corley, Buckholts, Tex., and the 219th Sig. Depot Co.; Lindley White, Shiprock, New Mex., and the 1786th Engineer P. S. Co.; Ed Kouri, Tulsa, Okla., and the 882nd Ordnance Co.; Bob Gill, Aberdeen, Wash., and the 508th Port Bn.; George Martin, Berryville, Va., and the 3198th Ordnance Co.
  Henry Lee, Jr., West Sanford, Fla., and the 6th Base Post Office; Tom Gonzales, Cuero, Tex., and Base Section Hq. Co.; Loyd R. Neill, Hereford, Tex., and the 1304th Engineers; Richard E. McGuffee, Enterprise, La., and the 1382nd E.P.D. Co.; T/5 Norman M. Viland, Ellendale, North Dakota, and the 1382nd E.P.D. Co.
  Marcus Baha, White River, Ariz., and the 1304th Engineer Const. Bn.; Darrell D. Bell, Larkspur, Colo., and Hq., USF-IBT (APO 885); Edwin W. Musgrave, Rawlins, Wyo., and the 835th Sig. Serv. Bn. (APO 885); Theodore McMonigle, Ponca City, Okla., and the 983rd Q.M. Supply Det.; T. A. Thead, Lancata, Tex.; Charlie Leonard, Lonhg Island, N.Y.; Alan Acklols, Rock Spring, Tex.; Parker Henderson, Jaspar, Fla., and the 25th Field Hospital (APO 629).
  Among the rodeo features, other than the competition, will be gala opening parade, and Indian Dance, a stage coach holdup, and music by several GI bands.

ONE MAN'S ARMY WIFE?

Olivia Josephine Oswald, Philippine citizen, who claims to have been married to Maj. Arthur Wermuth, "One man Army of Bataan," on December 7, 1941 in Manila, is shown here looking at a picture reportedly made at their wedding. (Acme)

Murder Of U.S. Flier
In Burma Described
By SGT. ED ALEXANDER
Roundup Staff Writer
    From the overall view of extensive Japanese brutalities toward American prisoners at Rangoon, Macassar and Sumatra, let's focus down for an intensive, close-up portrait of the Japanese Army officer caste as revealed in a single case of murder in Burma.
  On September 26, 1944, Lt. Bill Pauling was flying on a fighter mission near Mangshih. At 0810 other pilots in the formation heard Pauling gasp over the radio, "I'm hit. I guess I'll have to bailout." That was the last ever heard from Pauling. He was listed "mission in action, presumed dead."
  In the spring of 1945, Siki Suzuki, a civilian interpreter for the Japanese Army who didn't like fighting and war, deserted to the Allies, and started to talk to Army interrogation authorities. Serving with the advance headquarters of the Japanese 33rd Army at Boshi, near Mangshih, Suzuki knew a lot about Pauling's fate. Here is the story he told in roughly his own words.
  "At Boshi toward the end of September, 1944, I witnessed the beheading of an American aviator. I saw the American kneeling on the ground with his hands tied behind him. I saw Col. Moto - the headquarters Chief of Staff - right beside the American. Next to Moto was Lt. Nogayama. Within a radius of six or seven feet were several other staff officers. Altogether about 35 officers and 350 men, nearly the entire personnel of the headquarters, stood around in a close circle.

USED BURMESE SWORD
  "I saw Col. Moto with a piece of bomb fragment in his hand facing Pauling. I saw him strike Pauking across the face and open a cut. Nogayama had a Japanese sword. From one of my fellow interpreters who was right up close, I later heard that Moto wanted Nogayama to behead Pauling, but bot with the Japanese sword. He sent a private to the office to fetch a Burmese sword. "Meanwhile Nogayama held a picture of Pauling's wife in front of the flier.
  "When the Burmese sword came, Nogayama blindfolded Pauling. Col. Moto said, "Get on with it." Nogayama raised the sword and swung it on the back of Pauling's head. It did not sever on the first blow and Lt. Pauling fell forward. Two soldiers pulled him up. Nogayama then swung the sword once or twice more and it cut through Pauling's neck.
  "Later the other interpreter told me he had seen a piece of flesh cut off Pauling's thigh. He said the flesh

HERE IS THE STORY
When the sound of fighting is long stilled will Gi's remember for what purpose they came to South East Asia? When they are back home in familiar places, far away from strange sounding names like Myitkyina, Batavia, Pekanbaro or Rangoon, will they remember the face of imperial conquest?
The full features of the enemy are now being revealed in the War Crimes Trials taking place throughout the world. As a prelude to the opening of the War Crimes Trials in South East Asia, Roundup presents a series of articles detailing the methods of the fascist enemy in this area of the war, based on the hitherto "Secret" files of the India-Burma Theater War Crimes Section: giving facts and incidents never before revealed in any U.S. publication - Editor.

had been salted down by a soldier to preserve it.
  "A few weeks later we had a party to celebrate the moving of headquarters to a new area. Officers in Col. Moto's hut sent for an orderly from my hut. We sent our orderly, a private, and he came back with a piece of broiled meat. I can't say definitely what the meat was because I didn't eat any, but I know ut was not pig." (Officers had claimed it was pig in their affidavits.)
  "My fellow interpreter said, "This is the flesh of the intellectual American and if you eat it you will have moe wisdom.
  "I refused and a sergeant said, "You are too soft hearted. Eating humna fl;esh was common in China at the front. I have eaten it there."
  Suzuki's account of the small talk among the Japanese soldiers following the beheading gives startling insight into their character. Most of them were a little upset. Common opinion was that the least Nogayama could have done for the American was to use the good sharp Japanese sword!
  Nogayama himself went around the camp crestfallen. He was deeply ashamed of himself - because he hadn't done the job in one stroke!

NO TRUE SPIRIT
  More insight comes from the reactions of the Nip staff officers questioned late. Said a first lieutenant on Moto's staff, "I do not think Col. Moto, who knows the true spirit of the Japanese sword, would use it for murder. I believe that the Burmese sword might have been used for the beheading."
  They all denied being present at the execution and denied the cannibalism. However, every one questioned stated he believed or had heard that Col. Moto was responsible for the murder.
  Help cam from unexpected sources - a full colonel and a lieutenant colonel of the Japanese headquarters staff at Boshi. Both were being imprisoned as suspected criminals in Rangoon jail, and didn't like it. The Lt. Colonel said, "I hope he (Col. Moto) is pronounced guilty because I want to get out of here." The full colonel told interrogators he would tell the whole truth because there is no use living in confinement for the crime of others when he could be back on his farm in Japan resting!
  The colonel with the predilections for farm life, denies the cannibalism at Boshi but says, "While I was in Japan at Tank School I heard that Col. Moto had eaten the flesh of a POW in Malaya. While Col. Moto was on Guadalcanal he told news reporters, "I will get the kidney of a POW and eat it - soon I shall serve you fresh meat of American prisoners." These statements were published in a Japanese magazine and read by several of the officers testifying.
  American War Crimes investigators started on the trail of Moto. But in the records of the Commanding General of the 18th Nip Army at Bangkok, Moto was listed as a suicide. Lt. Nogayama was a hospital patient ion Indo-China in January of this year and will be removed into custody as soon as sufficiently recovered.
  Murder? Cannibalism? The court has not yet decided. But here are the facts to date.
  (Due to legal considerations in connection with the forthcoming S. E. Asia War Crimes Trials, all names used in this article are fictitious.)

Karachi AFRS Outlet Closes After 21 Months

By SGT. JIM WOODRUFF, Jr.

    KARACHI - After slightly more than 21 months operation, Radio Station VU2ZX, Karachi, has ceased operation.
  The final day's broadcast was made Jan. 28 coincident with the departure of the last troopship bound for American soil laden with 3,200 happy GI's who had listened to the last to this member-station of the India-Burma Network on the shores of the Arabian Sea.
  The final progress schedule featured another broadcast of "Objective America," originating aboard the USS General Morton, with interviews among returning soldiers. The last program was a chronological review of the station's history, interspersed with popular music of the day as the pages of time were musically turned.
  A concluding salute to the United Nations, depicting the purpose of AFR Stations, closed the operation of VU2ZX in furnishing entertainment, news, and diversion to thousands of American and Allied soldiers throughout the Karachi area.
  VU2ZX made it's debut into the circle of AFR Stations of the CBI Theater In May, 1944 with periodic test programs. In August of that year the station began regular noon and evening periods of broadcast with improvised equipment consisting of hand-wound turntables, a converted Army transmitter, and a composite console. The original staff was composed of Sgt. John Scogin, Cpl. Don Klein, Sgt. Jesse Harkness, and Pfc. David Anderson.
  In March, 1945, S/Sgt, Mark Gerstle was assigned to the station and in June, two additional AFRS men settled in Karachi. These were Pvts. Gale Martin and Jim W. Woodruff, Jr. Following V-J Day VU2ZX began regular daily service of 17 hours and 14 hours on Sundays, continuing this broadcast schedule to the closing date, Jan. 16, 1946.
  On hand for the final ceremonies were S/Sgt, Woodruff, S/Sgt. Russ Anderson, formerly with VU2ZU, Calcutta, T/4 David Anderson, the only original member of the staff still remaining, and T/4 Everett Gordon, who had served several months with the stations in Assam. T/4 Don Klein was 'out under the wire', being aboard the Morton. However, he mase a final appearance on the VU2ZX microphone during the broadcast from shipboard.
  Now the studies of VU2ZX, located on the mezzanine floor of the American Red Cross Club at KBA Hall in Karachi, are empty. The airlanes of Armed Force Radio Service in western India are silent. VU2ZX is another entry in the record books of the world wide radio service for the service men and women of the United Nations.

CAMP KANCHRAPARA
HAD IMPORTANT ROLE
IN I-B THEATER HISTORY

By SGT. JACK DEVLIN Roundup Staff Writer

    CALCUTTA - A convoy of 6x6 trucks bounced to the side of the rough, dusty road and pulled up in a clearing cut out of the wall of the jungle. As dusk gathered, the GI's climbed down, glanced around thoughtfully, and silently started erecting tents.
  It was Christmas Eve, 1943. The scene was 33 miles north of Calcutta. Camp Kanchrapara was being born.
  In the advance party were personnel from the 444th Replacement Co., and Headquarters staging area. They rolled out early the next morning, stiff from the night on the ground, and spent Christmas Day hacking away at the jungle and setting up a permanent camp.
  U.S. Army engineers joined them in clearing the land and members of His Majesty's Engineer Service went to work cutting through roads and putting up buildings.
  There was need for haste. The Japanese had all of Burma and were threatening India, too.

OLD TIMERS GONE
  Today, as the Army prepares to close Camp Kanchrapara and transfer its functions to Calcutta, all of that original advance party and most of the other "Old timers" at "Kan" have gone. Most of the old records and statistics are gone, too - destroyed by fire that swept one of the headquarters buildings after a gasoline lantern exploded one night.
  The facts, however, are these:
  The first camp area filled so quickly that another one was built, only to be followed by a third, until the three units in Camp Kanchrapara could accommodate 30,000 men - the equivalent of the population of New London, Conn.
  Men poured into the camp and were assigned to units all over India, and later, Burma and China. Navy men came in, too, along with the Army's combat and supply personnel. There were harbor-craft personnel. Later came a casual K-9 company made up of men and dogs apparently destined for the fighting in Burma. After that came a pigeon outfit shrouded under so much war-time secrecy that no one ever did find out where the group went.

CHINESE TOO
  In addition, there were Chinese troops, Nisei troops, medics from Persia and finally, truck experts from the Persian Gulf Command.
  War came closest to the camp in 1944 within a few months of the time the camp opened, when the Japs started their invasion of India at Manipur State and attempted to cut the rail line leading to Ledo.
  Weapons were drawn for the entire personnel in the belief that the Japs might be planning a parachute invasion of the camp area

DON'T GO AWAY

Jean Peters, 19, left Hollywood recently for her Columbus, O., home but it was all a mistake. A studio wants her back to make a picture - they saw a screen test she made.

in addition to hitting many other strategic points all the way up to Ledo. Then the tide turned, the danger passed and Allied troops went on an ever-increasing offensive that demanded constantly more men and supplies.
  Kanchrapara, along with the nearby Camp Angus and Camp Malir in Karachi, supplied the men in record time for every conceivable branch of the services.
  Today the reverse of the old process is just being completed.

70,000 PROCESSED
  Between V-J Day and Feb. 1, Camp Kanchrapara had processed 70,000 homeward-bound men, 34,000 of them coming from the China Theater. The ration worked out at 18 enlisted men for each officer.
  Actually the camp is handling more men now than it did during war-time, for available records indicate that the greatest number of men in Camp Kanchrapara was reached last November when 20,793 men passed through the camp.
  Homeward-bound troops have been reporting life at Camp Kanchrapara in recent months is strictly okay. Men are processed quickly by personnel who generally work at the job of trying to be helpful. Passes to Calcutta are available and a special train for the exclusive use of troops at Kanchrapara runs into the city each morning and back each night, Six-by-sixes await the train's return to camp and carry the men to their respective areas.
  Many of the men pass up the trips to Calcutta and spend all their time in camp. Each area has its movie theaters and shows go on every night. Red Cross and PX facilities are handy to each area. GI's wandering around the camp have found it is built near a cleared area of thousands of acres used as an "old age home" for thousands of ailing cows. An eight-foot wall, surrounding a compound on the "ranch," reminds you that the big tigers of Bengal lived in the area until the Army and others began clearing the land.

AMMO AREA
  Nearby, too, but at a safe distance from the camp and the cattle, is the ammunition-disposal area.
  One of the camp's best attractions, however, has been a slender lake where airplane-like pneumatic rowboats have been made available to GI's. A feature of the lake is its big fish. Indians with rod and reel occasionally catch fish up to 10 or 12 pounds. A British soldier living on the lake has a photo of a 20-pound fish he caught off his landing pier.
  But Camp Kanchrapara will be remembered best - probably - for one thing - as a springboard for Joes of the CBI heading Stateside.

‘YOU ARE TERRIFIC’

Lady Cavendish (Adele Astaire) ran over and threw her arms around Fen. Jonathan Wainwright when the hero of Bataan entered New York's famed Stork Club. She exclaimed, "Oh you hero! You are Terrific." (Acme)

CHABUA RADIO MOVES
WITHOUT LEAVING AIR

By SGT. E. GARTLY JACO Roundup Staff Writer

    CHABUA - Humidity House, "At the Crossroads of Asia," the last AFRS Station up "in the weeds,' was moved into a new home last week without a break in spitz of its 13-hour daily broadcasting schedule, the longest running time of any station within the I-B Theater today.
  After broadcasting from quarters area since June, 1944, Humidity House moved into the old Replacement Depot No.5 area in Balijan where it will fill the radios of the new Assam Area Command till the last GI in Assam leaves for home.
  VU2ZV will be a much better outlet now that a new transmitter has been installed from the Signal Corps, according to Maj. Frank B. Goss, officer-in-charge. And with the additional equipment from the Ledo station, Humidity House will have a double master control, thus making it the most elaborately equipped station in the Theater.
  VU2ZN in Ledo went silent recently. Humidity House feeds a transmitter in Ledo that broadcasts their programs to the remaining troops in that advanced area.
  The title, "Humidity House" was the result of a local contest conducted by VU2ZV in the Chabua area. A case of beer was the prize and at that time was worth working for. The station's unique geographical position also made the tag line, "At the Crossroads of Asia," a natural, since it joins the borders of India, Tibet, China and Burma. Now that VU2ZV has no brother stations in the area, the tag line has been changed to "Serving the Assam Valley."
  Besides six daily news broadcasts at intervals from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., VU2ZX's favorite special program is the "Hunidity House Handicap." Conducted by T/Sgt. Pat Bishop, the program gives the odds on the horses, track conditions, and other pertinent data gleaned from a Daily Racing Form that Bishop gets from the States.
  Then at 6:15 p.m., Bishop broadcasts the actual race, complete with sound effects, in a "leg-by-leg" account. Plenty of interest is maintained by horse racing fans and GI "bookies." Bishop mixes the Racing Forms in order to confuse any big-time "fixers."
  The station's mascot, a stray cat named Katherine, recently was the cause of much local anxiety and disturbance. Her pregnant condition was described daily until the final arrival of the blessed events - five kittens. Sympathetic GI well-wishers sent in calls of congratulations and even gifts of canned milk to the station.
  Including Maj. Goss, three professional radio men are on the VU2ZV staff. Goss announced for KNX, CBS station in Hollywood. Station manager Bishop was a newscaster and commentator for KFI and KECA in southern California and engineer-announcer for VU3ZV, Sgt. Fergus Stephen, is a former stateside announcer.

GI's Tell Of Visit Home Over Holidays

By SGT. ED ALEXANDER Roundup Staff Writer

    CALCUTTA - Pity the hard lot in life shared by Sgt. Ernest Meinbressie and Cpl. Britton Balzerit of the 1304th AAF BU at Barrackpore. They went back to the U.S. for Christmas, since then have explored the night life of Paris, and got a good glimpse of Frankfurt and Shanghai.
  What's so tough about that? The fact that after being home, now they're back in I-B!
  Meinbressie and Balzerit are the radio operator and flight clerk in the special "crack" crew which operates the C-54 staff ship used by Gen. Lawrence, ICD's former boss. When the general has to go back to Washington for a conference, Meinbressie and Balzerit work their way back and usually manage to wrangle a pass. That's what happened on Christmas.
  If you expect to get the hell out of uniform and into civilian clothes as fast as you can get your little white paper, according to these airmen, you're going to be disappointed.

NO SUITS
  They say: "Unless you can pay $100 for a custom-made suit, civilian clothing just ain't. We saw lots of guys wearing plain summer sports jackets in mid-December, because that's all they could find. Slacks and fatigue jacket make a very popular ensemble around New York now. You can't buy a white shirt."
  Fl/O John Holmes enjoyed seeing a civilian going to work with a lunch pail and railroader's cap - and an officer's short coat!
  Some returning GI's haven' even gotten away from barracks life. Lots are glad to get a place for their family in converted GI buildings at Fort Dix in view of the housing shortage, the world travelers said.
  Cpl. Balzerit said, "The most striking impression you get on arrival in the States is being disappointed. Here we've dreamed about the old place, and built it up big to every non-American we've met. But, while it's still the best place in the world, it's not the country of our dreams. The taxicabs in New York are really beat-up."

ETO OR I-B?
  The boys soon got into the good old-fashioned debate about "who's got a better deal - the ETO or us? Oddly enough, I-B didn't come out too badly. Everyone agreed Paris is a very sociable place, but as far as life within the Army is concerned, opinions were split fifty-fifty. Some thought I-B food better than ETO and our living quarters as good or better.
  Lt. B. Klebeck said he'd rather be in India than Germany or Austria. He claims that if you throw a cigarette butt on the street in Germany, within a few minutes a dozen well-dressed people will follow you for blocks if you smoke in public, waiting for the butt to fall. In Vienna, the lieutenant tells, depiote a veneer of good clothes, people are starving.
  The crew members said there are quite a few 1946 Fords around the streets back home, but they look just like the old pre-war models.

Chabua Begins Softball Play

    CHABUA - Thirteen teams have opened competition in the Chanua Softball League, with 223rd Signal Depot Company getting away to an early lead in the loop by copping two games.
  The Signals trounced 25th Field Hospital, 10-3, and walloped H and S Company, 1304th Engineers, 16-4. Assam Air Depot and 236th Signal Service Battalion also won early contests.
  Games are scheduled at four fields on Wednesday, Saturdays and Sundays.
  Teams are 223rd Signal Depot Company; Assam Air Depot; AACS; 2258th Quartermaster Truck Company; 3998th Engineers, H and S Company, 1304th Engineers; Balijan Officers; 25th Field Hospital; Assam Area Headquarters; Post Office and Makum Ordnance Depot.

DISEASE RATE IN I-B
DROPS TO NEW LOW

By SGT. WARREN UNNA Roundup Staff Writer

    The India-Burma GI of 1946 no longer need write to Charles Atlas, for he's already in excellent health; and there are descending curves on graphs in the Theater Surgeon's office to prove it.
  The I-B's four hospitals - the 142nd General in Calcutta, the 100th Station in New Delhi, the 371st Station in Kanchrapara and the 25th Field in Chabua - admitted at the rate of only 34 patients per 1,000 men during last December, as against a rate of 137 for the CBI Theater in July of 1943. And three of those 34 weren't even disease cases; they were accident injuries.
  The Theater Surgeon, Lt. Col. H. A. Van Auken, explained this week that the boost in I-B health is because of better living conditions (no more jungle), better organization in the field of preventive medicine and a surprising "disinclination" to go on sick call by the men about to be redeployed. There are four disease groups whose individual "popularity" charts show the colonel just where Theater personnel stand in the way of health.

MALARIA SLUMP
  Malaria has dropped from an average rate of 181 cases for each group of 1,000 men, as in 1943, to the 15 per 1,000 average in 1945. In the July-August peak of 1943 the rate was up as high as 320, and in 1944 the I-B rate even exceeded that of the Southwest Pacific Theater and the Pacific Ocean area.

LIKES EXERCISE

Noel Neill, an expert swimmer and diver, credits her "perfect figure" to outdoor exercise. By the numbers, one...

  The heaviest outcroppings of malaria have always been in the more primitive areas of Burma and Northern Assam, but today even there an outbreak is more often due to the failure to continue atabrine treatment on an old case, than to a fresh bite.
  The aerosol bomb, mosquito repellent, netting, the spraying of neighboring native huts, drainage of standing water, the wearing of complete covering at night (and that means the cap for those whose hair just won't cover the problem) - all these preventive measures have helped to cut down on the Theater malaria rate. Planes which used to spray DDT every two months or so over populus military areas, are no longer necessary.
  The second biggest menace to Theater health - dysentery - is also on the wane. In the CBI during July, 1944 there was a rate of 300 cases per 1,000 men. Last December this was down to 40. Dysentery is kept to check by close supervision of the preparing, serving and disposal of food and control of water supplies.
  Respiratory diseases, the third group, were at the lowest rate in Theater history during last November and December. Whereas the rate was up to 170 per 1,000 men in 1943, last December only showed 52 on the Surgeon's charts.

FLU SHOTS
  Since the Army ordered influenza shots to be given all personnel going back or forth across the seas between October and March, it is suspected that these inoculations might have had something to do with the decrease of cases. At any event, the I-B respiratory rate is better than the civilian rate back home and even superior to the Navy's which didn't give the shots.
  Venereal Disease, unlike the other three groups, is on the increase and has been in this Theater since last October. Lowest when men engaged in combat and were remote from heavily-infested areas, this Theater's peacetime rise jumped from a rate of 67 per 1,000 last December to one of 95 when three weeks had passed in January. Although the I-B record is better than that of any other Theater, GI's in the States had only a rate of 50 per 1,000 men during an average month of 1945. Italy, instead, skyrocketed to a rate of 480.
  Mental Psychosis cases seem to be insignificant in the I-B and the end of the war has seen no increase in the rate. There has never been a cholera case among GI's in this Theater's history and the incidence of the inoculable diseases of smallpox, typhus and typhoid fever is almost zero. Injury rates, due to automobiles and athletics, are lower than ever before. And there have only been a few snake bite cases, mostly from cobras.
  Contrary to the "Introduction to India" talk given at Kanchrapara to all in-coming GI's, the Theater Surgeon has never known a victim of the krait, "The most deadly, most invisible of all snakes - watch yourselves, soldiers, and welcome to India."

Delhi To Stage Victory Week

    Plans for Delhi Victory Week, in which American troops from the Delhi area will participate, are in their final stages, British General Headquarters announced last week.
  Highlight of these celebrations will be a gigantic parade in which about 10,000 troops from the Allied armies, including U.S., will march from the Memorial Arch in New Delhi to dispersal points in old Delhi. Pageant effects will be produced in the marching column with various groups of national flags and regimental colors. Overhead will be aircraft of the R.A.F. and R.I.A.F.
  The week starts on March4 with a "Remembrance" ceremony and will end on Mar. 9 with an air pageant, believed to be the biggest event of its kind ever staged in India.

Roundup Writer Tells Of Disastrous Trip Into Calcutta

Barrackpore GI Is Given Appointment
To Military Academy Roundup Staff Article

    KANCHRAPARA - Sgt. John A. Lindquist, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lindquist, Dearborn, Mich., departed here last week for the States after being notified of his appointment to the U.S. Military Academy.
  Young Lindquist was formerly an AACS traffic analyst at Barrackpore.
  The appointment was recommended by John Lesenki, Michigan Congressman, and provided Lindquist with a priority plane passage to the States. Prior to actually entering West Point, he will join a preparation until at Amherst College.
  "I've been in the Army two years as an enlisted man" said Lindquist, "and I'm certain the experience will give me a greater outlook if and when I become an officer. I know these two years will stand me in good stead."
  PS - Lindquist also plays football.

Attack On U.S. Trucks
At Dum Dum Described

By SGT. RAY SCHWARTZ Roundup Staff Writer

    CALCUTTA - The Stilwell Road (nee the Ledo Road, Pick's Pike and sundry other names) will eventually resolve into memory as The Road. No proper name will be necessary to India-Burma expatriates.
  Nevertheless, it is hardly the only road in the Theater destined to be favored by recollection. I, for one, will always look with trepidation on the trek from Kanchrapara to Calcutta, that slenderized, 38-mile stretch which affords the chance to lean out and shake hands with a good citizen in the living room of his basha.
  Even the drivers don't like it for there is a small monetary compensation for truck driving and a good chance hereabouts to get slapped down for speeding. One point summed it up: "I've been at it none months, have raised blister on my backside and have been fined for speeding.

PLAY, FIDDLER

A talent scout changed Helen Pender from a promising violinist into a screen actress when he spotted her at a gas station. She can really play it, too.

And all I got to show for it is a Pfc stripe."
  As for me, I've done the trip four times, all told. The last one undid me. This is being written with trembling hand.
  The occasion was a 47-truck motor convoy, whipped together for the purpose of getting long-delayed casuals to the Marine Angel. I needed a ride to town, but fast, and soon became a member of the first truck group. I should have stood in bed, leastwise in camp.

BEGAN QUIETLY
  Our entourage began quietly enough, though we packed along a sufficient group of armed MP's. They were S.O.P. for the day. WE made for the ack road, a new experience, and rattled through 25 miles without incident. Thence a riot car, flush with white-helmeted military cops, took us in tow, so it was presumed that the final lap would not be all cream and gorgonzola.
  Perhaps the younger generation is campaigning for a Bengali Hallowe'en. Je ne said pas. At any rate, our troubles took place while passing under a railroad trestle just before reaching Dum Dum. Some of the more precocious boys, perched atop the trestle, assaulted us with a barrage of bricks. We went through undamaged, but with our heads bending low. One brickbat bounced off the jeep in front of us and slithered across the top of our truck. No casualties.
  Succeeding trucks and passengers didn't fare so well. One hunk ripped right through the awning roof of a truck and injured a couple of casuals. Other bricks also found a few heads and bodies, while one lad unloaded a railroad tie - honest - which helped bring the American casualty list to 19 men.
  As far as we knew then, only one of the injured was in serious condition. Therefore the casuals were deposited at the dock and the 50 or more of us who remained managed to shake off our lethargy to convert the evening into a festive occasion.

ATE AT MAIDAN
  Captain E. A. Horner, convoy commander and an old Stateside acquaintance, arranged supper for us at Camp Maidan and the men of the 275th MP's, abandoning their veneer of toughness, gave forth every bit of cooperation they could muster. They patiently waited for us to eat, then escorted the gang toward the Red Cross Burra Club through quiet, dismal streets which had been stripped of humanity by the fear of public disorder.
  We finally reached the sanctity of the Burra Club. A blonde gal, Norma Hatfield of Washington, D.C., gave everyone a hearty handshake. What with local personnel restrained to their company areas for the night, business hasn't been so good. Now 90 specimens had descended on the place, were given sleeping quarters and had the run of the house.

FELT STRANGE
  While this story was being started, I could see three Red Cross girls putting out some cheer with a "Truth and Consequences" game. It just hit right, for some odd reason. The laughter was from somewhere down deep. Some guys behind me were providing their own version of ping-pong. A T/4 driver, obviously in need of some gay illiteracy, was reading a Tom Swift book.
  I tired fast and headed for bed before I could finish writing. I knew the first part of the story sounded strange. But it was a strange day and I felt strange. There must be some great social significance to all this, but I didn't want to feel it. I wanted to laugh at the rock throwing and laugh - always laugh at it. This story, I confess, sounds like a hollow cackle.
  There was a terrace door open in our barracks and I stopped for a minute to catch the night air. Dalhouse Square was sweeped clean of life. A single rickshaw driver, blissfully oblivious to the public temper, plied his trade in the street below the lonely lights across the square reflected yellow in the water, thus accenting their loneliness.

NAVY, RAF ASSIST PAIR
TO LEAVE CITY FOR BASE

Roundup Staff Article
    CALCUTTA - American ingenuity is an old, worn story - but it stall manages to pay off. This time a bit of British cooperation helped.
  All vehicle movements were at a standstill, except for emergency and urgent traffic, during the civil disturbances here last week. But that didn't deter Edwin Davis of Olympia, Wash., from returning to his U.S.I.S. duties at New Delhi. Nor did it prevent Betty Jane Hill of Evanston, Ill., from heading for Shanghai and her new job with the S.S.U. there. She was formerly an American Red Cross worker in this theater.
  The duo were stranded at the Great Eastern Hotel for two days, with no prospects of braking through to Barrackpore, the ATC terminal. As a last resort, they appealed to Lt. Commander Richard Norton of San Franciso, who is with the U.S. Navy liaison office here.
  Norton came through with a Navy launch and the pair moved up the Hooghly river headed for Bengal Air Depot. From there they hoped it would be possible to obtain motor transport to Barrackpore. However, the launch had to be back by nightfall and time was running out. Davis and Miss Hill were debarked at a jetty below Bengal Air Depot which had been previously used to unload fighter planes.
  The only military unit there was of the R.A.F. They appealed to the commanding officer, who graciously supplied a vehicle and six armed guards. Thus, both were standing by at Barrackpore when their respective planes came through.

GI CAPTURED, ROBBED
BY CALCUTTA RIOTERS

Roundup Staff Article

    CALCUTTA - Probably the most hair-raising individual experience in the civil disturbances here last week belongs to T/5 Ralph Ferguson of the 2480th QM Truck Co. He was kidnapped by a crowd of civilians in downtown Calcutta while driving his GI truck as a bus on Monday night, Feb. 11, between the city and Bengal Air Depot.
  At the intersection of Bow Bazar and Central Ave. a mob hurled rocks at the vehicle, but Ferguson proceeded on with his load of passengers. However, at the next main intersection, Ferguson's truck was halted by a road barricade of burning goods. He tried to turn around, but was surrounded by the crowd and was struck on the elbow by a rock.
  "The T/5 sitting next to me," said Ferguson, "jumped from the vehicle and made his way clear of the mob to the Hindustan Building. The mob dragged me from the seat of the truck and took all my valuables, which included a watch, fountain pen, dog tags, a lighter, my wallet and personal papers. Fortunately, I had less than 10 rupees on me.
  "After taking all my valuables, the mob rushed me down an alleyway on the right side of Central Ave. after going east past a fire station. While being taken away, I saw that those remaining at the scene were burning my truck. I was finally saved from the mob by two Indian firemen soon after entering the alleyway and I was escorted to the fire station."
  Ferguson, quickly reported missing by other passengers, was finally able to leave the fire station an hour and a half later when MP's managed to get to the area. All other occupants of the truck were reported safe in the heart of town, but the truck was completely burned out.

200 SEEK SURPLUS ITEMS Roundup Staff Article

    About 200 requests have been received already by the Theater Exchange Officer, under the arrangement among the Army Exchange Service, G-4, and the Foreign Liquidation Commission, whereby GI's and officers throughout the Theater have a chance to buy articles of surplus property.
  However, here are some warnings about items which have been requested and which will probably not be available.
  Parachute silk is all gone, available material having been cleared over Exchange counters previously. Wrist watches were sold.
  Firearms, under U.S. Army regulations, cannot be sold to enlisted men - only to officers.
  The most popular camera, the Kodak 35, with built-in range finder, is not available as Army surplus. This was originally a PX item, bought in the U.S. for re-sale only, and all of these have been sold. However, additional supplies will be available later.
  There are no Air Corps sun glasses or B-4 bags available.
  However, the Exchange Officer told Roundup that all requests will be turned over to FLC by March 1. G-4 will attempt to locate and supply FLC with all articles requested. FLC will then sell such articles to the Exchange Officer who will then fill all requests possible.
  So, if there is any kind of U.S. Army equipment you want to take home, write a letter to the Chief, Army Exchange Service, Hqs., USF, IBT, APO 885. List items that you want in complete detail and full Army designations and identification. Specify at which PX you will take possession of these items, And mail your request before March 1.

The Roundup is a weekly newspaper of the United States Forces, published by and for the men in Burma and India, from news and pictures supplied by staff members, soldier correspondents, Army News Service and United Press. The Roundup is published Thursday of each week and is printed by The Statesman in New Delhi and Calcutta, India. Editorial matter should be sent directly to M/Sgt. Charles Kellogg, Hq., U.S.F., I.B.T., APO 885, New York, N.Y., and should arrive not later than Saturday in order to be included in that week's issue. Pictures must arrive by Friday and must be negatives or enlargements. Stories should contain full name and organization of sender. Complaints about circulation should be sent direct to Roundup Distribution Officer, Base Section, APO 465, New York, N.Y. Units on the mailing list should make notification of any major change in personnel strength or any change of APO.

FEBRUARY 21, 1946

Adapted from the original issue of India-Burma Theater Roundup

An article was clipped from the original and it and a portion of the opposite side page is missing.
Better quality images of Dolores Moran and Jean Peters used in this re-creation.

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