1944, Ramgarh <NOW IT CAN BE TOLD> Pictorial First Edition, U.S. ARMY FORCES C. B. I RAMGARH TRAINING CENTER, PRINTED AT THE CATHOLIC PRESS RANCHI
民國33年，中緬印戰區，印度蘭伽中美訓練中心畫冊第一版 <NOW IT CAN BE TOLD >《Black Water Museum Collections | 黑水博物館館藏》
NOW that you've seen this book, a number of people may want to order additional copies. These are not immediately available because of the limited size of the First Edition. If sufficient interest is shown, however, a Second Edition will be printed. For extra copies, write, giving name and address, to Special Service Officer A. P. O. 628, stating number of copies desired. If and when enough orders are received, another edition will be printed.
SPECIAL SERVICE OFFICER A.P.O. 628
c/o POSTMASTER, NEW YORK
A pictorial story of the Chinese-American Training Center in India where the soldiers of two great nations have combined their efforts to mould the means of defeating the common enemy.
DEDICATION
The purpose of this book is to present, as best we can, a pictorial story of the efforts of the officers and men of the United States Army at Ramgarh Training Center. It is respectfully dedicated to every man who played his role in the training of our Chinese Allies in the use of our American equipment.
The work done here at Ramgarh had only one objective-the creation of a modern fighting force which could stand toe to toe with the Japs and slug it out to victory. For a long time we could not be sure how much we were accom-plishing, because time alone could give the battle-tested answer.
The answer was given In the spring and summer of 1944 when General Joseph W. Stilwell led his expertly-trained Chinese forces into combat against the Japanese in North Burma. In the hard-fought Hukawng and Mogaung valley campaigns, later in the surprise attack at Myitkyina, Ramgarh-trained Chinese divisions formed for the bulk of the forces that blasted the enemy out of his jungle positions and left behind thousands of these:
DEAD JAPS IN NORTH BURMA
THE REASON
Ramgarh was the site of a large Prisoners of War Camp. It is situ situated in the rolling hills and paddy fields of Bihar Province near typical Indian jungle. This, in brief, is its history.
As the Burma campaign disastrously closed during the month of May. 1942, the weary Chinese and British troops were forced to retreat and forfeit, for a time, the world-famos Burma Road.
Many troops fought their way through the jungles of Burma back into China. A large portion of the Chinese 5th Army, which was rushed into Burma to help stave off the Jap advances, crossed rivers and mountains to India.
After three months of continuous fighting, followed by a march of some 200 miles without adequate food, water or medical care, the troops were in need of a rest, personnel replacements and equipment. Supplies could be secured in India, so the Leginning of a new combat army was brought into being.
Ramgarh favored the type of training which the troops were to receive. Being on a railroad, supplies were brought in by carloads, and the equipment was distributed, which would give this new combat team, with its previously acquired battle experience, an added punch.
TRAINING
Before attempting to describe the training system in use at Ramgarh, lec us consider some of the general factors which control the system and make it different from any of our service-schools at home.
Ramgarh Training Center, unlike our schools at home, handles the training of all branches and arms of the service in one school. In other words, it can be compared to a school at home wherein the Infantry, Artillery, Engineer. Armored Force, Signal, Medical and Motor Transport schools would be com bined to form one large school.
Another difference is that here the training combines both that of individual officers and enlisted men in formal classes as at our service-schools at home, and the planning, direction and supervision of the training of the Chinese units, stationed at this school.
A third factor of great importance, not normally encountered in any of our schools, is the language problem. It is necessary here, to a great extent, to give the instruction through interpreters. To help overcome this difficulty. constant language classes have been conducted to teach spoken Chinese to
Americans. Advance classes are also held in Chinese reading and writing.
The school is divided into four main subdivisions: the Infantry, the Artillery. the Armored Force, and the Special Units sections.
OPERATIONS
The function of the Operations Section of the staff of the Commanding General, Ramgarh Training Center, is that of the G-3 section of any normal staff in our Army, the planning and co-ordination of training. In the early days the section bore the title of Office of the Director of Training: later it was known as the Office of the Assistant Commandant, before eventually acquiring its present nomenclature.
Col. John A. Andrews
INDIA - A complete book on the Chinese-American training center entitled Now It Can Be Told, is available to service personnel at a cost of Rs. 10, and an additional Re. 1 will send it home.
The book is completely illustrated. It can be obtained by sending the money to Special Service Office, APO 628 (Ramgarh, India).
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