Family matters and historic events are collated here in this chronology of the times we are considering. That may look odd, but that is how people lived, and live, after all.
This chronology is constructed as we go along, looking at the papers related to Zdrojewski and Matynka family history, figuring out what they mean, and finding time to do the blogging.
Additions and corrections are welcome.
1937-1945 - Second Sino-Japanese War.
1937
Japanese occupy and blockade most of China. Koumintang sets up Chungking as provisional capital of Free China.
Chinese build the Burma Road, to connect to the rail line from Rangoon.
1937
Japanese occupy and blockade most of China. Koumintang sets up Chungking as provisional capital of Free China.
Chinese build the Burma Road, to connect to the rail line from Rangoon.
1941
December 7 - Pearl Harbor.
December - Japanese invade Burma, to capture it within 3 months.
1942
March - China-Burma-India Theater of War is established.
Ledo Road construction begun by US Army Corps of Engineers.
March - China-Burma-India Theater of War is established.
Ledo Road construction begun by US Army Corps of Engineers.
April 14 - Donovan activates Detachment 101.
May - Japan forces an Allied withdrawal from Burma.
May - Japan forces an Allied withdrawal from Burma.
July 20 - OSS sets up HQ at Nazira, Assam.
1943
January - OSS Detachment 101 drops into northern Burma.
Eugene Zdrojewski drafted into US Army; boot camp summer and autumn at Fort Benning, Georgia.
1944
December 1943 - late summer 1944: EJZ in A.S.T.P. Japanese language school, University of Chicago.
May 17 - Merrill's Marauders capture Myitkyana airport, northern Burma.
October 1944 - Allies recapture Burma: US Mars Force, British, and Chinese.
Autumn 1944 - December 11, 1944: EJZ trains as Field Photo in Washington, D.C.
mid-December 1944 - mid-January 1945: EJZ in Santa Catalina Island, OSS training at Toyon Bay.
1945
January - first truck convoy takes the Stillwell Road Ledo to Kunming.
Date unknown - EJZ embarkation to Calcutta, route unknown.
March - Allies recapture Mandalay.
April - In April 1945, forty-six OSS men set up headquarters at an old Seventh Day Adventist mission at Sian in north China, some 150 miles south of Yenan.
May - Allies recapture Rangoon.
July 12 - OSS Detachment 101 deactivated.
Summer - OSS Detachment 101 personnel reassigned to 202 drive Ledo and Burma Roads to Kunming, HQ OSS Detachment 202.
Dates unknown in late June, July, and early August - EJZ in:
Kunming HQ;
then Sin Siang village;
later in Kaifeng;
finally in Sian/Xian and areas north.
August 6 - atomic bombing of Hiroshima
August 9 - atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Night of August 9 - Yellow River bridges mission completed by Team JACKAL
August 17 - DUCK mission (Tad Nagaki)
Autumn - flight over the Hump to India, then by sea through the Suez Canal.
Stop at Clydeside?
May 17 - Merrill's Marauders capture Myitkyana airport, northern Burma.
October 1944 - Allies recapture Burma: US Mars Force, British, and Chinese.
Autumn 1944 - December 11, 1944: EJZ trains as Field Photo in Washington, D.C.
mid-December 1944 - mid-January 1945: EJZ in Santa Catalina Island, OSS training at Toyon Bay.
1945
January - first truck convoy takes the Stillwell Road Ledo to Kunming.
Date unknown - EJZ embarkation to Calcutta, route unknown.
March - Allies recapture Mandalay.
April - In April 1945, forty-six OSS men set up headquarters at an old Seventh Day Adventist mission at Sian in north China, some 150 miles south of Yenan.
May - Allies recapture Rangoon.
July 12 - OSS Detachment 101 deactivated.
Summer - OSS Detachment 101 personnel reassigned to 202 drive Ledo and Burma Roads to Kunming, HQ OSS Detachment 202.
Dates unknown in late June, July, and early August - EJZ in:
Kunming HQ;
then Sin Siang village;
later in Kaifeng;
finally in Sian/Xian and areas north.
August 6 - atomic bombing of Hiroshima
August 9 - atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Night of August 9 - Yellow River bridges mission completed by Team JACKAL
August 17 - DUCK mission (Tad Nagaki)
Autumn - flight over the Hump to India, then by sea through the Suez Canal.
Stop at Clydeside?
1946
August, marriage of John P. Zdrojewski and Eleanor Kotwas.
1947
May - Clara Matynka graduates Kensington High.
December - John Francis Zdrojewski born; son of JPZ and Eleanor.
1948
June 12 - marriage of Eugene John Zdrojewski and Clara Adamina Maytynka
1953 or 1954
Casimir Zdrojewski discharged from Air Force
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