Our outfit sailed from Charleston to Karachi via South Africa on the USAT Brazil, a journey of two months. We traveled by train and plane to Chabua, Upper Assam, near Dibrugarh, on the Brahmaputra River.

  I organized the Two Years Overseas Banquet, the program of which contains the signatures of many of those who attended including two sergeants from the British Royal Engineers, who were stationed with us at Chabua.

  Our barracks was in a tea garden. We survived a Japanese air raid and one of our boys brought down a Zero with a Springfield '03 rifle, firing from a slit trench.