This website is an open archive of stories, biographies, images, and files related to the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater of war during WWII. Starting with materials collected by the Remembering Shared Honor team, we have already loaded over 2500 images related to the CBI. But we hope others will take part:
View archived materials (using the BROWSE or SEARCH functions, or the various links)
While viewing, use the 'Provide Info' function on each page to send in what you know--a person's name, a place, a time, or other detail--this is your contribution to the future.
Contribute your own story, images, files, or other information, either through uploading those items directly through this website, or by sending your materials (or scans of your materials) to us, and we will load it all into the website. We are interested in whatever you have, including your own biography. Note how badly we need your participation—without you there will be a hole in this history.
Get involved in one of our projects, for example, by taking part in our project to have at least 100 MIA and KIA biographies from the CBI on this site. These great people have been silent for 60 years, but now you can speak for them.
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For six years our group of volunteers has been traveling the US and China, collecting and recording oral histories from people who served in the China-Burma-India theater (CBI) during the Second World War, whether these people be Chinese or American, or transport workers, pilots, gunners, trainers, engineers, maintenance workers, and others, whether Flying Tigers or infantry or civilian. We now have hundreds of hours of video tape, many hundreds of declassified records, and scans of thousands of WWII period photographs, as well as modern photographs of those same people and locations. We are working to make all of these materials available to the public via this website.
We hope that other people will believe, like us, in the value of this CBI history, and will join our community. Do you know of a story that should be recorded here? Do you have materials, whether text or photos, that should be shared with everyone? Then join us!
Start by registering for our newsletter (when you register for the bulletin board; your email address will not be shown to any other users unless you select that option when you sign up), or post or read on the bulletin board, and especially, look over the materials already archived. Most of all, please contribute your story or other information that only you know!
The Remembering Shared Honor team
Note: Recently we were forced to move this site to a new server. If
you notice any corrupted images or other significant problems, please
email pat@rshonor.org, or use the
'provide info' function with each item to let us know where the
problems are. Thanks so much for your support! --Pat
We
rolled into Bronte, Texas—one odd errant American and two journalists
from China—unsure of what to expect. We were all a long way from home,
but for Mr. SUN Hong, a reporter from the Liuzhou Daily, and Mr. HUANG
Xiling, a videographer from the Liuzhou TV Station, the rolling
mesquite-covered earth was a world away from the karst mountain country
they knew in southern China’s Guangxi Province. Our location in
Texas—north of San Antonio and south of Abilene—was a hot and hard
place with thin soil and a shortage of rain, yet beautiful, with a
brilliant blue sky brimming with small dazzling white clouds evenly
spaced across its great open width.
As
we made out way down the smaller road towards the modest stone ranch
house, white dust swirling high behind our rental car, I was a little
worried—how would the family we had come to meet treat us? Even more
importantly, how would they feel about my two Chinese companions? And
indeed, the results were not to be quite as I had expected...(continue reading)
