在美国发现一组昆明老照片

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现在把这组照片和文字（翻译）全部刊登 

中缅印战区——被遗忘的战场（图片）

作者：Frank Vierling

1943－1945 

摘自：中缅印战区网站 ——

http://cbi-theater-10.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater-10/forgottenwar/forgottenwar.html

 

穿着整齐的学生

The school children were neatly dressed.

 
在建筑新的营房

 Lots of manpower - pile driving in preparation for a new barracks. 

 
他的哥哥是房东——你常常可以看到孩子带着更小的弟弟或者妹妹。

 His brother’s keeper – you often saw children caring for their younger siblings. 

 
在昆明公园的路边回到营地，我们去参观一个孤儿院。我们给孩子一些糖果。

 In Kunming City Park on the way back to camp from an orphanage visit. We took candy to the children. The package is a gift I purchased at the Nun’s gift shop. 

一个农家大门

 In a village doorway 

 

Dayton Johnson和孩子。他们总是在一起玩。

 Dayton Johnson, with the children. They were always fun to be with. 

 
在我们通信站的路边，常常可以看到这样的情形。

 We were on a busy road with all kinds of “commercial” traffic 

 
高中同学，未来的妹妹的丈夫， Paul Rittenhouse和我一同在“史迪威公路”正式开通时在昆明。皮克将军带领车队进入昆明。Paul为空运总队效力，这样有机会来昆明。

 High school classmate, and future brother-in-law, Paul Rittenhouse, was with me in Kunming for the official opening of the “Stillwell Road.” General Pick led the convoy into the city. Paul served with the Air Transport Command and had the occasional opportunity to stop in Kunming.

 
 

这是一个工程奇迹！

 What an engineering feat! 

 

 
 

第一车队来到昆明

 The first convoy enters Kunming 

 

 

1945年9月2日，战胜日本日

● September 2, 1945 – VJ Day 

10月，我有机会回到美国

● By October I had enough points to return state-side.

我飞到加尔各答，然后到卡拉奇过感恩节

● I flew to Calcutta, then Karachi and had Thanksgiving dinner there. 

我们终于得到一条船带着我们回家过圣诞节？

● We sweated out getting a ship to take us home by Christmas? 

11月23日，我们在自由轮上，

● We sailed on Liberty Ship, General J. H. McRae, November 23rd. 

通过红海，苏伊士运河进入地中海

● Through the Red Sea, Suez Canal into a very stormy Mediterranean. 

直布罗陀很平静，但是一个世纪风暴在大西洋等待着

● Gibraltar was calm, but a storm of the century awaited in the Atlantic. 

在风暴中，24小时走了67海里

● At the storm’s peak, at full steam, we only made 67 miles in 24 hrs! 

我们沉下去了

● Any less headway and we would have gone down.

32天以后，圣诞节前夜我们到达纽约。

● After 32 days at sea we docked on Christmas Eve in New York City. 

在Kilmer基地集中

● We were taken to Camp Kilmer to be mustered out. 

24小时以后，人人都可以回家，

● Anyone who could get home and back in 24 hours got a pass. 

我在圣诞节回家，1945年12月28日

● I was home for Christmas and discharged on December 28, 1945. 

 
新泽西的Oradell二战老兵，我不在里面。

 Oradell (New Jersey) World War II Veterans. I’m not in the picture.

 
 

 我  （Frank Vierling，昆明老照片图片和文字的作者）

Portrait taken at Madison, Wisconsin to send home.

 
 

典型的中国开裆裤。非常方便，不用尿布！！

 Typical Chinese split pants - how convenient, and no diapers needed! 

Original presentation by Frank R. Vierling