China War Memorial Badge and Ribbon
American Campaign Medal
Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal
Good Conduct Medal
World War II Victory Medal
I have a “Separation Qualification Record” that says he was a Tec 4 Draftsman with 993rd Signal Operations Company in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations. Made map over lays, military periodic reports and planned operations maps. Also did resurveying of small areas.
I think I might post some of his narrative as I get it written....like “about one week out of Bombay we were given a smallpox vaccination. Due to non-entry into my Medical records, (twice), I ended up with three smallpox vaccinations within a two week period”.
And.....”at roll-call one morning I found out that I was beginning a Cryptography class with 6 weeks training (it is 6 months in the States)”. Shortly after that I took my first plane ride in an Air Force C-47 Troop Carrier. We were given a parachute and told “to bring it back for a new one if it didn’t work”.
After several weeks of training with an American Radio Operator and using any Chinese soldier we could get to turn our hand cranked generator for the radio, I was called into HQ and informed that I was now a Draftsman with the Engineering HQ, Y-Force, Chinese Training and Combat Command (due to high school drafting classes). X-Force was located in India, Y-Force located in western China, and Z-Force in eastern China.
My job now involved keeping combat situation maps up-to-date, do photo interpretation of aerial photos of roads, bridges, and airstrips in our area. Any place a C-47 could land was an airstrip. I also made many field reconnaissance trips, traveling via aircraft, sampans, jeeps, railroads, or on foot.