| Interviewee | LEBER, John R. (b. 1920) |
| Military Service | U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 317th Troop Carrier Squadron |
| Interview ID # | OH 1274 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Stateside training in California, Nebraska, and Texas; description of trip in C-46 from Savannah to Labrador, to New Foundland, to Greenland, to Iceland, to Scotland, to southern France, to Egypt, to Saudi Arabia, to Karachi; descriptions of local culture as part of "The Great Adventure"; assignment to Ledo, Burma, and evacuation of troops and supplies after the war; his feelings about the dropping of the atomic bomb; contraction of dysentery and hospitalization in Kunming, China; flying "The Hump"; everyday camp life at Ledo; short assignment to Hsian, China, and Salua, India; sightseeing in Calcutta and observations of local culture and customs; the trip home to the U. S. by way of Manila and across the Pacific to San Francisco; postwar adjustments to civilian life. |
| Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello |
| Physical Description | 72 pp. plus documents (125 pp.) |
| Terms of Use | Open |
