Author: United States. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Railway Shop Battalion
Author: United States. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Railway Shop Battalion
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
"Explains the organization and operation of the railway shop battalion for employment on a standard military railway."--P. 2.
Transportation Railway Shop Battalion
Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Railway Shop Battalion
Author: Rails of War
Author: Steven James HantzisPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1612349374
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In a theater of war long forgotten and barely even known at the time, James Harry Hantzis and his fellow soldiers labored at a thankless task under oppressive conditions. Nonetheless, as Rails of War demonstrates, without the men of the 721st Railway Operating Battalion, the Allied forces would have been defeated in the China-Burma-India conflict in World War II. Steven James Hantzis's father served alongside other GI railroaders in overcoming danger, disease, fire, and monsoons to move the weight of war in the China-Burma-India theater. Torn from their predictable working-class lives, the men of the 721st journeyed fifteen thousand miles to Bengal, India, to do the impossible: build, maintain, and manage seven hundred miles of track through the most inhospitable environment imaginable. From the harrowing adventures of the Flying Tigers and Merrill's Marauders to detailed descriptions of grueling jungle operations and the Siege of Myitkyina, this is the remarkable story of the extraordinary men of the 721st, who moved an entire army to win the war.
United States Military Railway Service
Author: Don DeNeviPublisher: Boston Mills Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A story of true heroism. America's 44,000 soldier-railroaders kept vast numbers of troops and essential supplies moving through war-torn Europe.
Building the Death Railway
Author: Robert Sherman La FortePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842024280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Generosity amid the greatest cruelty, Building the Death Railway gives the American perspective on events that shocked the world.
Hell under the Rising Sun
Author: Kelly E. CragerPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585446353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Late in 1940, the young men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment stepped off the trucks at Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas, ready to complete the training they would need for active duty in World War II. Many of them had grown up together in Jacksboro, Texas, and almost all of them were eager to face any challenge. Just over a year later, these carefree young Texans would be confronted by horrors they could never have imagined. The battalion was en route to bolster the Allied defense of the Philippines when they received news of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Soon, they found themselves ashore on Java, with orders to assist the Dutch, British, and Australian defense of the island against imminent Japanese invasion. When war came to Java in March 1942, the Japanese forces overwhelmed the numerically inferior Allied defenders in little more than a week. For more than three years, the Texans, along with the sailors and marines who survived the sinking of the USS Houston, were prisoners of the Imperial Japanese Army. Beginning in late 1942, these prisoners-of-war were shipped to Burma to accelerate completion of the Burma-Thailand railway. These men labored alongside other Allied prisoners and Asian conscript laborers to build more than 260 miles of railroad for their Japanese taskmasters. They suffered abscessed wounds, near-starvation, daily beatings, and debilitating disease, and 89 of the original 534 Texans taken prisoner died in the infested, malarial jungles. The survivors received a hero’s welcome from Gov. Coke Stevenson, who declared October 29, 1945, as “Lost Battalion Day” when they finally returned to Texas. Kelly E. Crager consulted official documentary sources of the National Archives and the U.S. Army and mined the personal memoirs and oral history interviews of the “Lost Battalion” members. He focuses on the treatment the men received in their captivity and surmises that a main factor in the battalion’s comparatively high survival rate (84 percent of the 2nd Battalion) was the comraderie of the Texans and their commitment to care for each other. This narrative is grueling, yet ultimately inspiring. Hell under the Rising Sun will be a valuable addition to the collections of World War II historians and interested general readers alike.
Railway Operating Battalion
Author: United States. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Transportation Corps Professional Bulletin
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description