K 37472591. One Soldier's Story: U.S. Army Horse Cavalry China-Burma-India Theater 1943-1945

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Nebraska: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. — 98 pgs.Recollections of one man's experiences in the U.S. Army's horse cavalry at Fort Riley later in the China-Burma-India theater. The author, now 89, learned to ride with the reservist cavalry at Fort Omaha at the age of 12. When WWII broke out he enlisted and was sent to Ft. Riley. Already trained in weapons and horsemanship with the military, he completed basic training and then was assigned to train other enlisted men. After training three units, he was sent to the China-Burma-India Theater. He arrived in Burma just as the Battle of Myitkyina was ending and Allied troops were taking the city from the Japanese. From there Ketzler was assigned to a mule packing unit which picked up air dropped supplies and took them to the front lines along the Ledo Road. He was then flown to China where he went to Kunming assigned to train Chinese soldiers and officers on use of American weapons. Finally, as the war ended, he supervised the unloading of ships at Shanghai which had been ready for the invasion of Japan. These are Ketzler's recollections of the individual experiences which give the reader a feeling for what life in that part of the war was like.