Thanksgiving

Alice Chong outside the HQ building at Kunming in 1944, holding the Dachshund puppy that her roommate Eloise Witwer gave to General Chennault. Chennault named the dog “Little Joe” and then changed its name to “Joe-Dog” after it grew up. The name, of course, was a way of getting back at his nemesis, General Joseph Stilwell because, as Chennault would...

"Thanksgiving 1943. Left to right center clockwise: Shanks, Simo, Widmoyer, Wolf, Capt Ratchford, Von Breyman, Burke, Boldt, Simonette & Sullivan. Howard M. Sharp is the Black mess attendant, and presently a magician in Washington D. C., name of HOSHA." Photo from Joseph J. Simon.

Thanksgiving meal in mess hall in the CBI, apparently in a location that was hot. During WWII.