Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Preface 1 1. "Feeding the Tiger": Background to the War in China-Burma-India, 1941-1945 3 2. "Many Mountain Roads": Platoon Sergeant Robert Boehm, U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps 24 3. Captain Edward M. Goodman, USAAF: "Flying the Aluminum Trail" 47 4. Captain David C.

Hall, U.S. Army Air Forces, and the 4th Combat Cargo Command 63 5. "A Most Impressive Engineering Achievement in War": Corporal Alexander McVean's War Along the Burma Road, 1944-1945 105 6. "A Chemical Company to the Front": Technical Sergeant Kenneth R. Quigley, 1943-1945 141 7. "Keep 'em Flying": Corporal Anthony R. Silva, U.

S. Army Air Forces, In-Flight & Ground Maintenance Support in China-Burma-India, 1944-1945 154 8. "Road Builders and Jungle Warriors": African-American Soldiers and the War in China-Burma-India and the Southwest Pacific Area of Operations, 1941-1945 181 9. "The Forgotten Theater of World War II": Reflections of Service in China-Burma-India, 1941-1945 198 Appendix 1: Table of Organization of the 516th Quartermaster Truck Regiment, Tehran, Iran, 1942-1944 243 Appendix 2: Observations of Ground Search Party Investigating Wrecks of C-47s #812 and #767 244 Chapter Notes 247 Bibliography 261 Index 267.