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Was It All Exciting?

Recent Monsoon in Bombay which took the lives of hundreds of people did much gfreater damage than the monsoon that greeted me and my  fellow replacements who were assigned to the Air Service Command in Northern India(Assam) in June 1944. The intensity of the rain which fell on my first base in Mohanbari was  incredible. For a time in seemed it would never stop. What was surprising was the speed at which the leather in my wallet became moldy.  Then for the first time, I  was exposed to  sleeping in a bed(charpoy) encased in mosquito netting.  Assigned to a service group replacing engines on Curtiss ;Wright C-46's and Douglas C47's (DC 3's) we  worked for several weeks with rain coming almost every day at either Chabua or Mohanbari Airfields.. Occasionaly we were sent on detached service to the 48th service group where we "pickled " engines(preserving the cylinders from rusting) destined for shipment to China.

 

August 19, 2005 in Non Combat Boredom | Permalink | Comments (0)

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