OSS CBI Photobook 17

 

 

  Page 17 is the first of several showing us off-duty moments in the HQ near Kaifeng. They seem to have quite a few such moments, and quite a lot of film.

Above: scan of top half of page 17.

 

 Above: scan of bottom half of page 17.

 

This mode of transport will be featured in stories coming up.

 

Robichaud, aka Frenchie

This kind of scene became a classic in after years, right?

Looks like blackjack.

 

 

 

 

Mills, Mills, and Brunner has lists of team members beginning on page 503. Note in the image above that the team name changed over time. 

 

As of May 22, 1945, the eight-member team is set up under Paul Cyr.

Zdrojewski is the only member of the small group that trained together on Catalina who has ended up in JACKAL.

For Friele, at least, we now have a hint. Andrew photoshopped the dollar bill pasted into the Page 16 photomontage:

There's a name we know! Sgt. B. E. Friele. 

 

This photo has the following caption in the "Communications Branch" section

of the OSS Primer Page of the US Army Special Operations History Office:

 

"1SG Berent Friele sending a message at SO Team JACKAL, China, 1945. Friele had previously been the radio operator of Jedburgh Team GERALD in France 1944."

OSS CBI Photobook 16 - Team JACKAL, Black Ducks, Transition to Kaifeng, Part 2, The Dollar

In Part 1, we began the study of Page 16, and noted the transition from the first base camp, somewhere near Kunming, the terminus of the Burma Road, south of the Yangtze.  The majority of the photos on the page are from that location.  

Team JACKAL has moved about a thousand miles to the northeast, to Kaifeng of many canals, on the Yellow River, east of the target destination, Hsien.

The photo top right is the first to show a canal; the photo bottom center shows a houseboat on a canal or a lake.  See how they and the dollar bill slant off - to the northeast, as it were.

Page 16, scan of bottom half.

Eugene Zdrojewski and Albert Robichaud.

Why save this dollar?  Let us take a close look.

C.H. Phelps,

F. A. BucKANAN,

G.A. Cook,

J. KEllEY

S.W. Hart

S.P. LIU

James D. Kelley rotated the bill
and wrote his address:  Pritchard, West Virginia.

Roy Perkins, Jr.

GABRIEL MASH
B'KLYN, N.Y.

The dollar bill is glued to the page with the purple letters backwards.  When we flip the image of the scan, we see this, below.  Can you read the top line?  If so, please let me know.

"KAIFENG, CHINA" is Dad's writing; I can tell you that.

Captain Edward B. Zarembo

Kaifeng

Chinese commando patch.
From the OSS site.