OSS CBI Photobook 23, Part 2

 Part 1 is here. 

Now we take a look at the bottom half of that page of the PhotoBook.

 

The vast, empty floodplain affords no cover.

 

See that little kid in the background? My initial scan, prior to adjustments, was so dark that he was invisible. As the image got lighter, he popped out of the darkness into view and scared me half to death. Then I laughed when for sure he said Boo!  This goes to show the truth of the Longmire quotation: Sometimes you have friends you don't know in places you've never been.

 

 Berent Friele fixes that radio again. Those distinctive and sturdy chairs are still being made. 

 

Paul Cyr is at the tailor's shop, where they measure him for some new britches that will make him completely blend in just like when he was in France, and be totally inconspicuous, invisible to the Japanese.  Right? They're only 400 miles into Japanese-held territory. And there are only 20,000 Imperial Japanese troops approaching right now. And finally, those Imperial spies in plainclothes, wandering around town looking for OSS guys, will be no problem to spot. Right?

We see an interesting table base, as well as another of those chairs.

 Do they spot an American plane? another drop?

 The JACKAL Team Log written up by our EJZ is in the National Archives. Robert Mills kindly sent me the bound photocopy that the MMB authors had the Archives staff make for them. We can take a look at a few pages from the .pdf version that I have converted to .jpeg in Preview.

Note that the entire Team Log is in EJZ's handwriting. As he explains on his first page, the first few pages, dated May 22 to May 30 1945, while in his handwriting, are transcribed from the Zarembo's diary, reprinted in MMB 55-65. Team Log entries after May 30 are of EJZ composition.

May 23: Boris Chiu rides off to HsienHsiang to arrange a meeting of General Sun with Paul Cyr:

May 24: Cyr takes his Bride-cart ride to the meeting.  See MMB63.

May 25:  . . . Maj. Cyr and Lt. Chiu began work on the city itself. First studying a map of the city, Lt. Chiu went out into the streetsw to "rub elbows" with the Japs and find important buildings and bombing targets . . . 

 

 May 26, 27, 28, 29: see MMB 74-76.

 

When we pick this up again we will get Welo out and EJZ in.