PAL RH-36 Knife used by Medic in Liuchow and Shanghai China

[kanemono]

Here is a PAL knife that was used by medic Theodore W. Calkins, Jr. who was born in in East Troy, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1913. After graduating from Troy High School, Calkins was a partner with his father in the T. Weller Calkins and Son General Store in East Troy. He married Pauline M. Wilber in 1937. Calkins was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1944. He served with the 96^th Field Hospital which was organized October 1944 at Camp Barkley, Texas, in anticipation of an invasion of Japan during the autumn of 1945 and treatment of a half million potential war casualties. The field hospital’s destination was China. The 96^th Field Hospital was deployed to India on February 7, 1945 aboard the Navy troopship USS General A. Mann. It continued travel by rickety train and then vehicle convoy through Burma and into China over the treacherous Ledo-Burma Road. When they arrived in Kunming, China, to set up the field hospital, they found it was not needed and they were sent to Liuchow and then to Shanghai, China. After being discharged from the army Calkins worked for the Elmira Star Gazette as a district circulation manager. Theodore W. Calkins, Jr. died on February 24, 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

[doyler]

Dick

 

Another very nice Group

[mikedon]

Very nice!

 

I would much rather have an identified group like that than a mint knife.

[camillus]

Nice grouping, especialy interesting to me because I am from Horseheads NY just north of Elmira and had family in Troy.

[sundance]

Great named group. It just means so much more when you know exactly who used it..

[Pops369]

I am 100% with Mike on this one.