World War II vets who fought in Burma.......

[Pete]

World War II vets who fought in Burma honored at Airborne & Special Operations Museum

http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/...ac=fo.military

"W.B. Woodruff was a 19-year-old private first class marching mile after mile through the rugged mountains of Burma alongside a mule he called Jack.

It was 1944, and Woodruff was among about 7,000 soldiers and 3,000 mules walking single-file through jungle paths full of disease-carrying mosquitoes and across cold rivers with chest-high water. Collectively, the special operators were known as the MARS task force, artillerymen sent to capture the Burma Road to open a supply route to China to support the fight against Japan....................."

They had a pretty good turn out for a Saturday AM.

[SF_BHT]

Thanks Pete

I need to stop by there next time I'm in the AOR and see all the changes they have made.

[echoes]

Pete Sir,

Thank you for posting this...my Uncle Bug would have appreciated reading about this Sir. WWII Veterans are in a class above.

Outstanding tributes.

Holly

[Richard]

CBI - the nearly forgotten war...except for those who fought it and those who study it, of course.

And so it goes...

Richard