Padre of the Burma Road

Padre of the Burma Road PDF

Author: Christopher Sullivan

Publisher:

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781478720287

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At the young age of twenty-seven, a newly ordained Franciscan priest, Father Christopher Sullivan is sent to China to teach and work in rural China to help establish missions. He describes unbelievable tales of his sacred journey and life as a missionary and transformation as a rural healer. During the Japanese invasion of China from 1940 to 1941, Father Christopher transported supplies from Rangoon to Kunming. He drove and sold trucks through the narrow, winding and mountainous highway of the Burma Road to deliver medications and supplies from the Red Cross to the missions and people in rural China. He was endearingly referred to as the "Padre of the Burma Road." After escaping death by inches on several occasions, Father Christopher Sullivan left his assignment as a Franciscan priest in China during 1941, and sought refuge in the Philippines. He was captured by the Japanese in Bataan in 1942, while working for the Army Quartermaster Corps, and walked the brutal "Bataan Death March." After his harrowing three years in the Japanese prison camps, he met and married Anicia, a young beautiful Filipino woman.

Burma Road

Burma Road PDF

Author: Grady L. Overstreet

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2001-07-11

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0759621039

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Burma had always held many secrets over the centuries with its Temples and Cults. Benjamin James Roe spent much time there along the Burma Road, before and during the Second World War. Recently a murder had occurred near Union, South Carolina. It was similar to one he thought he had solved in 1947. What he was about to discover forty years later would turn his world upside down, and forever change his belief about the Legend known as the Green Dragon and the Elephant Cult associated with it. Benjamin Roe had heard the saying many times. Over the next few weeks it would ring so true--'BURMA IS THE REALM OF DREAMS’.

Padre of the Burma Road

Padre of the Burma Road PDF

Author: Christopher Sullivan

Publisher:

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781432798376

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At the young age of twenty-seven, a newly ordained Franciscan priest, Father Christopher Sullivan is sent to China to teach and work in rural China to help establish missions. He describes unbelievable tales of his sacred journey and life as a missionary and transformation as a rural healer. During the Japanese invasion of China from 1940 to 1941, Father Christopher transported supplies from Rangoon to Kunming. He drove and sold trucks through the narrow, winding and mountainous highway of the Burma Road to deliver medications and supplies from the Red Cross to the missions and people in rural China. He was endearingly referred to as the "Padre of the Burma Road." After escaping death by inches on several occasions, Father Christopher Sullivan left his assignment as a Franciscan priest in China during 1941, and sought refuge in the Philippines. He was captured by the Japanese in Bataan in 1942, while working for the Army Quartermaster Corps, and walked the brutal "Bataan Death March." After his harrowing three years in the Japanese prison camps, he met and married Anicia, a young beautiful Filipino woman.

Exodus Burma

Exodus Burma PDF

Author: Felicity Goodall

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2011-10-31

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 075246664X

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Until a few weeks before the fall of Rangoon, the British had not dreamt the Japanese would invade Burma. So in early 1942, British soldiers trained for desert warfare fought a Japanese Army trained and equipped for the jungle. Those who survived this fierce fighting faced malaria, air attack, and lack of food and water, on the long walk out through the Valley of Death. Ragged groups of soldiers and civilians were forced to trek out of Burma through some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world. They hacked their way through jungle, forded rivers, and climbed steep mountainsides to escape. Many did not survive the journey. Among these incredible stories was that of Bill Williams, who led refugees out on a herd of elephants. Other civilians who had enjoyed an idyllic colonial lifestyle were ill-equipped for the journey. Setting off with the family silver and their pets, they soon had to abandon all but the essentials in order to survive. Thousands died, but many more crossed the border into India and safety.

Ding Hao

Ding Hao PDF

Author: Cornelius, Wanda

Publisher: Pelican Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9781455603558

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This history book celebrates a near-forgotten band of gallant American airmen, led by Claire Lee Chennault, who served in the midst of a strange land at a time of great turmoil. They arrived in China, not as conquerors, but as codefenders, appreciated by the most humble and grateful Chinese who would smile to them and in many cases utter the only mutually recognizable words of communication: 'Ding Hao, ' meaning 'It is good.'

Remains

Remains PDF

Author: Daniel Ford

Publisher: Warbird Books

Published:

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Fitz and Blackie have joined the American Volunteer Group, mercenary pilots who became famous in the defense of Burma and China as the Flying Tigers. Love, fear, death, and disillusionment are the payoff, along with a $500 bonus for each Japanese plane they destroy. "A cracking good yarn about interesting people, including the Japanese fighter pilot whose story adds special realism to the battles." (Air&Space / Smithsonian magazine) By the author of the definitive history of Claire Chennault and the AVG.

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