India.- WWII.- My Life on the Ledo Road, paper album of photographs and clippings, c.105 photographs and various newspaper and magazine clippings laid down on 20 leaves, of which c.15 photographs overexposed or faded to illegibility, a few manuscript captions, some soiling and general wear, with some photographs/clippings evidently once present but now lacking, leaves hole-punched and bound on the short side, first page with 105 x 60mm. photograph of the presumed creator of the album laid down over a newspaper article and manuscript title "Sunday. The beginning of the hills from Assam India Sept 31 1944 - My life on the Ledo Road up in the hills tomorrow. This Book begins Sept 30 1944 at Assam India", album oblong 4to (253 x 330mm.), 1944.

⁂ The scrapbook of an African American soldier during his time constructing the Ledo Road, later known as the Stilwell Road, built as a supply route to connect Ledo, India, to the Burma Road in northern Myanmar, allowing transport to China. The road was an almighty and dangerous task; of the 15,000 American engineers involved (60% of whom were African American), 1,100 are believed to have died, and no count was made of the casualties among the Indian and Burmese workers.

The photographs include soldiers at rest, a few landscapes of jungle, some of the works with machinery, a couple of local residents and one photograph of Mahatma Gandhi. The clippings include stories published in military papers, including "C.B.I. Roundup" and "Yank. The Army Weekly. China-Burma-India Edition", some relating to the venture itself, and others nostalgia for home.