China Theater Newspaper . . .

First published as the newspaper for Base Section 2 in Calcutta, India, the final issue of The Command Post was published on February 2, 1945. With the February 9 issue, it became China Command Post, newspaper of the China Theater of Operations. A contest to find a new name for the paper resulted in the March 9 issue carrying the winning name on the masthead, The China Lantern. Here are two recently added 1945 issues...

FEBRUARY 16 and MARCH 2

CHINA COMMAND POST

ATC in India-China

This 1945 booklet produced by the Graphic Information Section of the India-China Division (ICD) of the Air Transport Command (ATC) tells the story of ICD in the CBI Theater. Shared by Jyotirmay Bareria.

ATC IN INDIA-CHINA

MAY 31 SET AS CLOSING DATE OF I-B

Six months after the Japanese surrender the "war news" is long gone from Roundup as the above headline indicates. The theme now is "homeward bound" and most of the stories are about the closing of the India-Burma Theater (I-B) and details of troopship sailings. Read all about it in the re-created March 28, 1946 issue, one of a dozen "new" issues now online.

ROUNDUP HOME PAGE

The Last "Hump Express"

The very last issue of Hump Express, newspaper of the India-China Division of the Air Transport Command

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HUMP EXPRESS BASE

"New" issues of The China Lantern

   Here are two "new" issues of The China Lantern, newspaper of the China Theater of Operations, recreated for the Internet using pictures and stories from the original newspaper shared by Paul Shindelar.

August 28, 1945

September 18, 1945

China Lantern Home Page

Inside Wartime China

Published by the Chinese Ministry of Information in Chungking, December 1, 1943, this book extols the virtues of China, it's people and soldiers. Most definitely a government propaganda book intended for China's allies in the war against Japan. That's an armed "Miss Free China" shown on the cover of the book at left. Here the original book has been completely recreated for the Internet. Shared by Hal Baker.

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Dear Mom

I wrote a letter to you last Friday but we couldn't send them as we moved from our first camp, near Calcutta to a camp here at Ledo, India. Ledo is in the northeast part of India. We came up here in Company trucks. We drove the trucks on to flat cars on a train part of the way and we had to stay with the trucks even when we were on the train. The trip was very tiresome but interesting. This Ledo Road that we drove over is a part of the Burma Road and it is fairly good now, although a while back it was terrible. We drove over a mountain that was a little dangerous but not bad if you're careful. The road was very dusty and had a lot of narrow bridges . . .

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