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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 121551, member: 136&quot;]Yep, Davey, I knew that(!) </p><p>I&#039;m afraid I oversimplified in my original post!</p><p><br /></p><p>Jim was one of the 4,600 American railroad workers sent to Assam, the Indian province closest to the Burma border, in 1943 to help operate the rail lines. He was a fireman first, then an engineer. Here are a couple more photos:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]30891[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Eventually, he was sent to Burma, where he served with Merrill’s Marauders.</p><p><br /></p><p>This photo is labeled “me in a captured Jap(anese) diesel, Mogaung”:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]30892[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>These 2 say only “my locomotive got hit by the Jap(anese)” – no date, no location:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]30893[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again, Davey.</p><p><br /></p><p>-C-[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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