The Snapshots in Time Collection
Letter Order #1229, Headquarters Replacement Depot Number One, USF IBT, Malir, India, 16 September 1945 (Green Project Redeployment Orders)
A typewritten military order dated September 16, 1945, directing four U.S. Army Air Corps officers to return home from the China Theater under the 'Green Project,' the postwar redeployment program that brought American servicemen back to the United States following Japan's surrender. Documents like this illustrate the massive logistical effort required to demobilize and repatriate troops from the China-Burma-India Theater at the close of World War II. Project: 218374