After college, dad joined the 45 Engineering Regiment responsible for building the Burma-Ledo Road. He once told me that he volunteered to be an officer with the “colored” regiment because, growing up poor in South Louisiana, he just felt more comfortable around a bunch of black folks rather than some snooty white guys.
He shared only very little of his personal experiences in WWII; usually only when he’d get mad at one of us kids. I know he spent many years acquiring photographs from this theater. He has good with photoshop and scanned a restored many, many pictures. Unfortunately, many photos were poorly documented and they still remain highly unorganized. It will take a while to sort through these but any help in identifying anything I’m able to upload here would be appreciated.
I was recently going through some old photos my father had collected from his experience during the war. Unfortunately they were.in large, overhead projector images and weren’t readily scannable. However, all of the images he collected from this time period were donated to the WWII Museum in New Orleans. I have not seen how/if they have been curated yet but hope to travel there at my earliest convenience to see. I’ve heard very good things about this museum. My sons other grandfather is also supposed to be represented there. His name was Cleo “Pappy” Sellers and I’m not currently sure what theater he served.