1945 ORIGINAL GROUP OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES AND EPHEMERA DEATAILING ONE MAN'S SERVICE IN THE CRITICAL INDIA-BURMA THEATER AND THEN LATER WHIRLWIND TRAVELS AROUND THE GLOBE

On offer is an original, modest archive of ephemera [15 pieces] including a manuscript diary and notebook travel log of an American SOS Officer [Services of Supply] serving in 1945 in the critical India-Burma Theater. Belonging to and handwritten by Lt. Ray Vekroff the first writings are on a yellow, legal pad type paper, 27 hand numbered pages torn from the main pad block and folded, wherein Ray retrospectively details his background and service. Originally, he states, that he was a civilian in China and then in China and India for 35 months in the Army. But at the end he explains his desire to return States-side for re-assignment. The second book, a flip style notepad, begins March 21 1945 at the SOS Headquarters in New Delhi and 10 pages of entries detailing an amazing near circumnavigation voyage with a Trans-America trip twice to boot! aboard a ship, steam freighter Cambay. We follow him to Trincomalee Sri Lanka, Port Said, Gibraltar to Norfolk, Washington DC, Asheville, San Francisco then back and forth to Washington again and finally to end September 13 in Tokyo Japan. There are another three pages of names and addresses. Overall G.; Manuscript; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF, WWII, USF, IBT, LT. RAY L. VEKROFF, SOS OFFICER, INDIA, 19445, US ARMY, DIARY, SERVICES OF SUPPLY, WORLD WAR II, WW2, INDIA BURMA THEATRE, SEAC, CHINA THEATRE, GENERAL COVELL, STEAM FREIGHTER CAMBAY, AMERICANA, HANDWRITTEN, MANUSCRIPT, AUTOGRAPHED, AUTHORS, AMERICANA, MANUSCRIPT, DOCUMENT, LETTER, AUTOGRAPH, KEEPSAKE, WRITER, HAND WRITTEN, DOCUMENTS, SIGNED, LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, HISTORICAL, HOLOGRAPH, WRITERS, AUTOGRAPHS, PERSONAL, MEMOIR, MEMORIAL, PERSONAL HISTORY, ARCHIVE, DIARY, DIARIES, ANTIQUITÉ, CONTRAT, VÉLIN, DOCUMENT, MANUSCRIT, PAPIER ANTIKE, BRIEF, PERGAMENT, DOKUMENT, MANUSKRIPT, PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO, ATTO, VELINA, DOCUMENTO, MANOSCRITTO, CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD, HECHO, VITELA, DOCUMENTO, MANUSCRITO, PAPEL,