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A Combat Cameraman's Experiences by Richard H. Spencer "THE CRAZY ONES SHOOT FILM" VIGNETTES FROM A JUNGLE WAR A Combat Cameraman's Experiences by Richard H. Spencer Richard H. Spencer 2005 f \ i If:- I Chapter Index PREFACE ................................................................................................................. ii GETTING THERE WAS NO SURE THING .................................................................... 1 WELCOME TO BURMA NIGHT LIFE ........................................................................ 11 PUSH COMES TO SHOVE ....................................................................................... 16 HISTORY SET THE STAGE ....................................................................................... 22 FOOD AND AIRDROPS ........................................................................................... 30 CHINDIT ASSAULT BY RIVER .................................................................................. 34 ASSIGNMENT TO THE WEST FLANK ....................................................................... 40 UNIFORM REGULATIONS ...................................................................................... 51 THE GERMAN INFLUENCE ..................................................................................... 28 FISHING EXPERIENCES ........................................................................................... 59 SNAKES ................................................................................................................. 64 AND THE RAINS CAME .......................................................................................... 65 THE L-5s ................................................................................................................ 71 THE RAILROAD BATTALION ................................................................................... 77 LISTENING ON THE TIBETEN BORDER .................................................................... 81 BUSTING AN OPIUM DEN ...................................................................................... 83 THE 45 LOOKED LIKE A CANNON ........................................................................... 85 ARMORED UNIT .................................................................................................... 87 GENERAL AND GENERALISSIMO ............................................................................ 95 THEN THERE WAS LORD MOUNTBATTEN ............................................................. 99 NEWSREEL WONG .............................................................................................. 101 ALONG THE RAILWAY CORRIDOR ........................................................................ 105 THE LOCAL DOCTOR ............................................................................................ 114 MONSOONS ........................................................................................................ 115 TREE BURSTS ....................................................................................................... 122 TRUCK CONVOY TO CHINA .................................................................................. 125 BRONCS .............................................................................................................. 129 THE LAST COMBAT RUN ...................................................................................... 137 WINDING DOWN ................................................................................................ 143 WE'RE OUTTA HERE ............................................................................................ 146 POST ARMY ......................................................................................................... 150 NOTE FROM DICK SPENCER ....................................................................... Last Page preface: During world War II, the CBI Theater of operations (China, Burma and India) was a part of the southeast Asia command. In the fall of 1943 most of Burma was still in the hands of the Japanese who had overrun that country in 1942. As the Japanese swept up through Burma, the British Forces, and some Chinese troops with American advisors under General Joseph Stilwell and the Dr. Seagrave surgical unit had retreated out to India. Some American and British radio teams, and a few OSS and British operatives had settled into the hills of Northern Burma at Ft. Hertz, and along the Burma-India border where they recruited and trained a group of Kachins and Shans into what would become identified as Detachment 101. These men lived in, and operated from the Kachin and Naga villages that dotted those hills. Many of the Kachin rangers who had been a part of the British Forces had drifted back into the villages to become intelligence and guerrilla operatives, often close in behind the Japanese lines, working with the OSS and aiding the liaison men working with the Chinese divisions under General Stilwell, as well as finding downed fliers and helping them out of harms way. Later, Kachins and shans in up to company and battalion strength would be a part of Detachment 101 teamed with Merrill's Maurauders and the following Mars Task Force, as well as other guerrilla teams for operations as much as 100 or more miles behind the Japanese lines. Scenes From A Jungle War Richard H. Spencer - ii - The Chinese troops that walked out with General Stilwell had been sent to a training center at Ramgah, India for reinforcing, additional training and outfitting for re-entry into Burma. By the fall and winter of 1943 parts of three divisions of Chinese troops, the 38th, 22nd, and 50th were back in northern Burma. One of those divisions, the 38th, was commanded by a Chinese general who was a graduate of v.M.i. in the U.S., and the 22nd was commanded by a general who had been trained in France at St. Cyr, the French equivalent of west Point. I never came to know the commanding general of the 50th division. These divisions were retrained by Americans at Ramgah in India following their retreat from Burma in 1942 and were assigned to General Joseph Stilwell. Each division had U.S. Army officers and noncoms attached to them as liaison men who performed in much the manner of today's special forces attached to foreign troops. Shortly before the author's arrival, these divisions had reentered northern Burma and were starting to fight their way south. Later additional Chinese divisions, heavier artillery, as well as Gen. Merrill's Maurauders (Galahad), the subsequent Mars Task Force, and an American trained Chinese tank battalion with support infantry would join the fight. There was also a British brigade called the Chindits, under General Ord wingate, that was conducting guerrilla operations against the Japanese, usually Scenes From A Jungle war Richard H. spencer - iii - behind their lines, then about the time that Myitkyina was taken by the Maurauders, the British 36th Division was air lifted in by colonel cochran's Air commando unit to a site code named "Broadway", and that was located along the railway corridor behind the Japanese lines, southwest of Myitkyina and Mogaung. Part of that british brigade also cleared the Japs from Mogaung, which action involved a company of Gurkahs who's actions were described to this author by one of the British sergeants who was there. This is what he told me: "The Gurkahs got tired of waiting and sniping from fox holes. They, 150 of them, on their own stormed into Mogaung with their kukris (a machete like knife) and cleaned japs out of the town, in the morning 15 were able to stand to role call." The first two Chinese divisions, the Detachment 101 unit, and Wingates Chindits were the forward forces of a strategy aimed not only at retaking Burma, but of opening a back door to again use the Burma Road into China for supplying Chiang Kai-shek's armies facing the Japanese there. Those units were soon joined by the Maurauders, and then a British Indian division, both inserted behind the Japanese lines. The British Indian unit cut a major Japanese supply line to the Myitkyina area as it was being taken and cleared, cut off some Jap units and forced withdraw! of others. As the country opened up and a road from India was put Scenes From A Jungle War Richard H. Spencer - iv - through by American Army engineer units with assisting Indian labor, the Chinese armored battalion, and additional Chinese forces were brought in. The use of lOS and 155 mm howitzers also had to wait for the road being built from India in order to use the necessary vehicles to move them. The fighting in Northern Burma was a jungle war, often in jungle with density such that a man six to twelve feet off the trail could disappear from view, and where the monsoons poured from 300 to 500 inches of rain a year turning trails and jeep tracks into quagmires, and the jungle into a mosquito, mite, tick, and leach infested steam bath, clothing and shoes rotted, anti malarial medicine was often not available, and in many places all supplies including pack horses and mules were by airdrop that came if and when weather permitted. Medical and surgical care was provided by a unit commanded by Dr. Seagrave, a missionary surgeon who had been in Burma for years, and who would be written about, and well remembered by many of us as "The Burma Surgeon". The members of Dr. seagrave's team were a mix of races, nationalities and tribes; a marvelous group of truly dedicated people. Two of the doctors and all of the nurses had been trained by Dr. Seagrave in his mission hospital that was located
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