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Rails of War: Supplying the Americans and Their Allies in China-Burma-India

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In a theater of war long forgotten and barely even known at the time, James Harry Hantzis and his fellow soldiers labored at a thankless task under oppressive conditions. Nonetheless, as Rails of War demonstrates, without the men of the 721st Railway Operating Battalion, the Allied forces would have been defeated in the China-Burma-India conflict in World War II.

Steven James Hantzis's father served alongside other GI railroaders in overcoming danger, disease, fire, and monsoons to move the...