Register of the Paul LeRoy Jones papers
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Inventory of the Paul LeRoy Jones papers, 1928-1994
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
- Processed by:
- Beth Goder
- Date Completed:
- 2012
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- Machine-readable finding aid derived from Microsoft Word and MARC record by Beth Goder.
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Collection Summary
Title: Paul LeRoy Jones papers
Dates: 1928-1994
Collection Number: 80149
Creator: Jones, Paul LeRoy, 1906-
Collection Size:
6 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 card file box, 1 oversize folder
(5.5 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: The collection contains photographs, press releases, clippings, speeches, orders, maps, and a diary relating to Allied military
activities in the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II and to General Joseph W. Stilwell.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
The collection is in English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
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copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
Publication Rights
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Paul LeRoy Jones papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1980.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Related Materials
China Defense Supplies records, Hoover Institution Archives
Claire Lee Chennault papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Frank Dorn papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Henrietta Thompson processed volume, Hoover Institution Archives
Jack Silvey motion picture film, Hoover Institution Archives
Jesse Conn Miller photographs, Hoover Institution Archives
John N. Hart letters received, Hoover Institution Archives
Joseph Warren Stilwell papers, Hoover Institution Archives
William E. R. Covell papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Biographical/Historical Note
| 1906 |
Born |
| 1920s, circa |
Radio communicator in San Diego and San Francisco |
| 1928 October - 1929 June |
Cadet, United States Air Corps |
| 1929, circa |
Accepted a reserve commission in the Chemical Warfare Service of the United States Air Corps |
| 1941 April |
Joined 7th Division, Infantry, United States Army |
| 1941 August |
Assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion (heavy weapons company) |
| 1942 February, circa |
Promoted to captain |
| |
Worked as a railroad operations officer |
| 1942 March |
Traveled to India and Burma |
| |
Appointed liaison and courier to the Chinese 5th and 6th Armies |
| 1942 May |
Participated in Joseph Stilwell's Burma walkout |
| 1942 June |
Promoted to major |
| 1942 October |
Appointed headquarters commandant and assistant to the acting assistant, G-4, acting as a transportation officer, possibly
for Services of Supply (S.O.S.)
|
| 1943 October |
Promoted to lieutenant colonel |
| 1943-1944, circa |
Public relations officer, China-Burma-India Theater |
| |
Member of CBI Radio Team |
| |
Oversaw delivery of supplies for Services of Supply (S.O.S.), China Defense Supplies |
| 1944 |
Received Bronze Star |
| 1944 December |
Returned to United States |
| 1945 |
Worked for the Office of Information Services for Army Ground Forces, Public Relations |
| 1945 September-October |
Public relations work in Okinawa, Japan |
| 1945 November |
Returned to civilian life in California while remaining in the Army Reserves |
Sources:
CBI Roundup, June 22, 1944, and November 9, 1944. Accessed through CBI Theater:
http://cbi-theater-1.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater-1/roundup/roundup062244.html
Jones, Paul L. "The Withdrawal from Burma and the Stilwell Walkout."
Ex-CBI Roundup, May 1992. Accessed through CBI Theater:
http://cbi-theater-3.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater-3/stilwellpages/stilwell_walkout.html
Scope and Content of Collection
Consisting mainly of photographs, the Paul LeRoy Jones papers relate to Allied military activities in the China-Burma-India
Theater in World War II, the Burma walkout in 1942, and General Joseph W. Stilwell.
The
China-Burma-India Theater file includes the transcript of a diary that Jones kept from 1941 to 1945 documenting his experience in the China-Burma-India
Theater and his interactions with General Stilwell. . The diary includes entries from May 1942, when Jones participated in
the walkout through Burma to India led by General Stilwell. In the diary, Jones discusses his work with transportation of
supplies, radio broadcasting programs, and his responses to world events. Explanatory notes, which Jones made at a later date,
can be found throughout the diary. This file also includes documents by and about Stilwell, such as correspondence, clippings,
press releases, statements by Stilwell, and the typescript "The Stilwell Story" by Finis Farr.
Jones held various jobs during the war that required him to travel extensively in the China-Burma-India Theater. Since he
was assisting the Signal Corps, Jones was allowed to take photographs during his assignments. The
Photographs contain images of areas where Jones was stationed, the construction of the Ledo Road, and Joseph Stilwell. Photographs that
were previously separated still retain their original groupings in envelopes and have been integrated into the collection.
Additional photographs can be found in the
Scrapbooks. The collection contains a scrapbook documenting the Burma walkout, which contains photographs, diary entries, and a map
with a red line marking the walkout path. The second scrapbook documents Jones' time in Assam, where he was in charge of materials
from China Defense Supplies that went over "The Hump." The third scrapbook concerns the surrender of Ryukyus Islands at Tenth
Army Headquarters on Okinawa.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Stilwell, Joseph Warren, 1883-1946.
United States. Army.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Burma.
World War, 1939-1945--China.
Box: 1-2, 5, map case
China-Burma-India Theater file
1928-1994
Scope and Content Note
Includes press releases, clippings, speeches, orders, maps, and transcript of Jones' diary. Arranged alphabetically by format.
Box/Folder: 1 : 1
Claire Chennault's retirement,
1945
Box: 5
Oversize magazine clippings,
1942-1944
Scope and Content Note
Includes
Life article by Clare Booth Luce
Box/Folder: 1 : 4-5
Diary of Paul L. Jones,
1941-1945
Scope and Content Note
Typed transcript, includes notes
Box/Folder: 1 : 8-11
Stilwell, Joseph,
1942-1994
Box/Folder: 1 : 12
General,
1941-1986, undated
Box/Folder: 1 : 13
Engineer in the Far East: Memoirs of World War II in China, Burma and India,
1984
Scope and Content Note
Includes letter
Box: 2-4, 6
Photographs
1942-1945
Scope and Content Note
Includes black and white photographic prints, negatives, and slides. Arranged by format, with two groups of photographs. Includes
photographs previously listed in the Hoover photograph card catalog. See also Scrapbooks.
Box: 2-4
Photographs previously separated,
1941-1946
Scope and Content Note
Originally listed in the Hoover photograph card catalog
Box/Folder: 2 : 3
Envelope A. 12 prints of military facilities in India, 1943; 18 prints of air base at Kweilin, China, 1944
Box/Folder: 2 : 4
Envelope B. 61 prints of Kunming, China, including exercises with Chinese soldiers, 1944; 13 prints of Chungking, China, 1942-1943;
9 prints of funeral arrangements of Lin Shen, 1943; 4 prints of Chinese troops in Burma, 1944, undated
Box/Folder: 2 : 5-6
Envelope C and D. 97 prints relating to the construction of the Ledo Road, Burma, 1943-1944; 18 prints of facilities and troops
in Burma, 1944
Box/Folder: 3 : 1
Envelope E. 59 prints relating to the Battle of Myitkyina and the jungle training facility and general area after the battle,
Burma, 1944
Box/Folder: 3 : 2
Envelope F. 42 prints of Chinese soldiers at training facility in Rangarh, India, 1943; 9 prints of construction of an air
base at Cheng Tu, China, 1944; 3 prints (unidentified) in the China-Burma-India Theater, circa 1942-1945
1944
Box/Folder: 3 : 3-5
Envelope G, H and I. 105 prints of Joseph Stilwell, William Bergin, Chiang Kai-shek, Chou En-lai, Chu Teh, Claire Chennault,
John Dill, Patrick Hurley, Douglas MacArthur, Mao Tse-tung, Frank Merrill, Brehon Somervell, Daniel I. Sultan, and others,
1941-1945
Box/Folder: 3 : 6
Envelope J. 15 prints of Joseph Stilwell with his family; 6 prints of Stilwell touring a Chrysler tank factory, 1945
Box/Folder: 4 : 1
Envelope K. 16 negatives of the 73rd Evacuation Hospital in North Burma, 1944; 26 negatives of Joseph Stilwell, Claire Chennault,
and others, 1942-1946
Box: 4, 6
Photographs retained with collection,
1942-1945
Box/Folder: 4 : 3
[Cheng Tu Air Base],
1943
Box/Folder: 4 : 4
Chinese military cemetery near Kunming, China,
1944
Box/Folder: 4 : 5
Chinese troops near Ledo Road,
undated
Box/Folder: 4 : 6-9
Chungking, China,
1942-1944
Scope and Content Note
Includes headquarters
Box/Folder: 4 : 10
Chungking, China, and Washington, D.C.,
circa 1943, 1945
Box/Folder: 4 : 11
Japanese surrender at Okinawa,
1945
Scope and Content Note
Includes letter. See also Scrapbooks
Box/Folder: 4 : 12
Kunming, China,
1943, undated
Box/Folder: 4 : 14
Mandalay, Burma,
1942
Scope and Content Note
Includes one print of area after bombing
Box/Folder: 4 : 15
Maymyo, Burma,
1942
Scope and Content Note
Currently named Pyin U Lwin
Box/Folder: 4 : 16
Myitkyina air strip,
1944
Box/Folder: 4 : 17
Stilwell, Joseph (includes "Uncle Joe's Chariot," Chungking and Kandy Ceylon),
1944, undated
Box/Folder: 4 : 18
War correspondents and photographers who went on first B-29 raid from Cheng Tu, China,
1944
Box: 4, 6
Negatives,
1942-1944, undated
Box/Folder: 4 : 20
Stilwell; Bill Bergin; CBI Headquarters in Chungking,
undated
Box: 6
Assam, India and Kunming, China,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Roll of negatives
Box: 6
Bombing mission, 10th Air Force,
undated
Scope and Content Note
See China-Burma-India Theater file, diary. Roll of negatives
Box: 6
China, Chungking. Chinese temples. Ledo Road. India general,
1942-1944
Scope and Content Note
Roll of 35 mm negatives
Box: 6
Ledo Road,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Roll of negatives
Box: 6
P38 and [P51] planes at an air base in India,
circa 1944
Scope and Content Note
Roll of negatives
Box: 6
Stilwell (Ledo) Road under construction,
circa 1944
Scope and Content Note
undated
Box: 7-9, map case
Scrapbooks
1942-1991
Scope and Content Note
Includes three scrapbooks containing photographs, memoranda, reports, correspondence, maps, a badge, and clippings.
Box/Folder: 7 : 1
Original housing,
undated
Box/Folder: 7 : 2-3
Photographs,
1942, undated
Box/Folder: 7 : 4
Transcript of diary entries, notes, maps, clippings, book excerpts,
1942-1987
Box: 8-9, map case
Services of Supply, China Defense Supplies in Assam,
1942-1991, undated
Box: 8
Photographs, map, badge, original housing,
1942-1944, undated
Scope and Content Note
Housed in oversize box
Box/Folder: 9 : 1
Photographs, correspondence, and other documents,
1942-1944, undated
Map case
Clipping on the Burma Road,
1991
Box: 9, map case
U.S. Tenth Army and surrender of Ryukyus Islands at Tenth Army Headquarters on Okinawa,
1945, undated
Box/Folder: 9 : 2
Excerpts from letters to Winifred Stilwell,
1945
Box/Folder: 9 : 3
Original housing,
undated
Box/Folder: 9 : 4-6
Photographs,
1945, undated
Map case
Okinawa Shima maps,
undated
