Burma Road (Ledo, Stilwell)

797th Engineer Forestry Company mill in Burma, cutting beams and delivering them for bridge building along the Burma Road. During WWII.

797th Engineer Forestry Company mill in Burma, cutting beams for bridge building along the Burma Road. During WWII.

Gilbert Charles Weber was a member of the 797th Engineer Forestry Company, station in Burma during WWII. Gilbert Weber was born on April 22, 1924, and graduated from Rockville High School in the class of 1942 and was then employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Quarantine. Gilbert Weber registered for the draft on June 30, 1942...

Using a power saw, with Chinese workers, is T/4 Robert E. Tainsh, cutting cross beams for bridges being built in the Kao Tien District of the Burma Road that is being built from Lungling, China, to meet the Ledo Road at the Burma border. December 1, 1944. Photo by T/5 William E. Shemorry. 164th Signal Photographic Company, APO 627. Passed...

Former Japanese troop quarters built in revetment along Burma Road 1.5 kilo north of Zhefang. This place differs from others shown in that roof is made of heavy sheet steel and added protection is afforded by row of earth filled gasoline drums set around the top of earth bank forming wall closest to Burma Road. December 6, 1944. Photo by...

Chinese coolies working cutting out jeep road by hand, on Kwan Hsi Po Mt., in the Kao Tien District, along trails once used by Marco Polo in this Chinese travels, which will meet the Ledo road at the Burma border, opening the road for much needed supplies for China. December 2, 1944. Photo by T/Sgt. Greenberg. 164th Signal Photographic Company...

Detachment "A". Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Pick stops for chow at Kilo 170 on the Burma Road, while leading the first convoy to China. January 31, 1945. Photo by T/5 Milton Koff. 164th Signal Photographic Company, APO 627. Passed by Goldberg.

American survey team surveying the road which will meet the Ledo Road at the Burma border, opening China's lifeline to India. Sgt. James W. Clark on guard, at transit is T/4 Lance A. Rodgers, while T/3 Joseph R. Pauline records, in the background holding range pole is T/5 Corbet B. Presley. December 2, 1944. Photo by T/Sgt. S. L. Greenberg...

At the Tengchong cutoff: T/4 Lorne C. McEwen, a convoy driver, is seen being interviewed by Chinese war correspondent Mr. Fu Gang-bor, as fellow driver Sgt. G. N. Cumberland looks on. Yunnan Province on March 4, 1945. Photo by T/Sgt. Greenberg. Passed by William E. Whitten.

At the Tengchong cutoff: Convoy driver Sgt. Eric J. Neilson, driver of the SOS convoy that went over the Tengchung cut off of the Stilwell Road is shown looking at the pet monkey of a Chinese soldier. Yunnan Province on March 4, 1945. Photo by T/Sgt. Greenberg. Passed by William E. Whitten.