Oral history interview with John R. Leber, 1999 January 15.

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Leber, John R., 1920-. Oral history interview with John R. Leber, 1999 January 15.

Oral history interview with John R. Leber, 1999 January 15.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318465137

Interview with John R. Leber, an Army Air Forces veteran (317th Troop Carrier Squadron), concerning his experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Stateside training in California, Nebraska, and Texas; description of trip in C-46 from Savannah to Labrador, to Newfoundland, to Greenland, to Iceland, to Scotland, to southern France, to Egypt, to Saudi Arabia, to Karachi; descriptions of local culture as part of "The Great Adventure"; assignment to Ledo, Burma, and evacuation of troops and supplies after the war; his feelings about the dropping of the atomic bomb; contraction of dysentery and hospitalization in Kunming, China; flying "The Hump"; everyday camp life at Ledo; short assignment to Hsian, China, and Salua, India; sightseeing in Calcutta and observations of local culture and customs; the trip home to the U. S. by way of Manila and across the Pacific to San Francisco; postwar adjustments to civilian life. Appendix includes one hundred twenty-six leaves of personal letters.

72, [126] leaves : facsim. ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT