Transcriber’s Note:
The notice is difficult to make out but I believe it reads:
The first convoy over the Ledo Road passed this point at 2:00 PM on 28th January, 1945 thus establishing a land link with China from India.
The capture of Ledo by the Japanese had severed China from land communications with the outside world since May 1942. With the opening of this road, America is implementing her promise made to China in the dark days of retreat, to give our allies the road to Victory.
CHINA
SECTION OF BURMA ROAD just east of Yun-nan-i, China. Many hairpin turns were necessary to wind a road around the treacherous mountain terrain. Note the many terraced rice paddies on the mountain sides and the distance from the road of the two Chinese villages, left center. Over most difficult terrain and under intolerable weather conditions, Allied forces defeated the Japanese in Burma in late spring of 1945. (click image to enlarge)
BURMA
JAPANESE WARSHIP UNDER ATTACK by North American medium bomber B-25 near Amoy, China, 6 April 1945; some enemy survivors can be seen in the water as others cling to the side of the wreckage (bottom). In the spring of 1945 the Japanese began to withdraw from south and central China.