[Milsurplus] The OSS in Kunming - WWII

[Jack Sullivan]

  Shame he didn't write his memoirs, even if only for his family. 
( But that applies for the majority of war veterans, doesn't it ? ) 
I suggest the Kunming station was a collection and forwarding station, for small outstations reporting. 
Would have been interesting to know what gear all the OSS stations were using.
-Hue 

>.....I was born in late 1944 while my ham father was overseas in China with the OSS, helping to run a clandestine?radio station in Kunming.....
Jack====================================================Typical of WWII veterans, my father did not talk much about his war experiences. I learned more about this after he died (interred along with my mother at Arlington). 
He had completed the super-secret USAAF radar cadet course given at the then Boca Raton AAF & was finishing up cadet training at Yale College when he was called into an office & offered a chance to volunteer for a dangerous assignment from which he might not return: the OSS as it turned out. My mother was pregnant with me at the time (mid-1944) & I was told that I was nearly born in New Haven. As it turned out I was born in the base hospital at Mitchell AFB (Roosevelt Field), likely a half mile or less from the point where Lindbergh took off for Paris.
I obtained copies of his orders - train to the W Coast, troop ship to Bombay, flying the 'Hump' from there to Kunming, & recall pix he took in India of the 'burning ghats' at the edge of the Ganges River where the dead were cremated. The only story I recall about the OSS radio station was that the T/R were some distance away from the control room at the main base & were controlled remotely by pole-supported wire lines. Each night the Chinese residents would climb the poles & steal the copper wire. My father (a 2nd Lt.) had use of a '39 Packard & a 'slopey chauffeur' which he used to drive into the town & buy back the wire from the locals.
Jack
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