Wow! He was probably on those mule teams to transport stuff over The Hump!
Your dad had some unique mid-Twentieth Century duty there! (of course, the axis powers used more horse and mule transport than we did, of that I am certain)
He went over the Hump numerous times but it was by plane. He never mentioned mule trains going over the Hump. He liked the Sherpa guides they had.
He was with Gen. Stillwell when the Japs chased them. Then they definitely relied on mules.
Yes, the Germans were very reliant on horses and mules.
I have some neat pictures of hundreds of mules being led down some of the streets of San Francisco on their way to the docks.
One of the transports was torpedoed and they couldn’t save the mules so they went through the stalls and shot as many in the head as possible before the ship went down so they wouldn’t have an agonizing death by drowning.