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Rails of War - Supplying the Americans and Their Allies in China-Burma-India (Hardcover)
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Rails of War - Supplying the Americans and Their Allies in China-Burma-India (Hardcover)
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Oppressive conditions, a thankless task, a theater of war long
forgotten and barely even known at the time-nonetheless, as Rails
of War demonstrates, without James Harry Hantzis and his fellow
soldiers of the 721st Railway Operating Battalion, the Allied
forces would have been defeated in the China-Burma-India conflict
in World War II. Steven James Hantzis's father served alongside
other GI railroaders in overcoming danger, disease, fire, and
monsoons to move the weight of war in the China-Burma-India
theater. Torn from their predictable working-class lives, the men
of the 721st journeyed fifteen thousand miles to Bengal, India to
do the impossible: build, maintain, and manage seven hundred miles
of track through the most inhospitable environment imaginable. This
remarkable story of the extraordinary men of the 721st includes the
harrowing adventures of the Flying Tigers and Merrill's Marauders,
the Siege of Myitkyina, detailed descriptions of grueling jungle
operations, and much more as they move an entire army to win the
war.
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