Word: kachins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inadequate rations were augmented by Karin Kachin, Burmese girl nurses who, under the direction of Major Gordon Seagrave, Burma-born mission doctor, picked berries and vegetables, made stews complementing the small rice diet. Our ofttimes drooping morale was also kept alive by these girls, all of whom were between the ages of 17 and 22, singing Christian hymns, ancient American jazz, as they marched barefoot downstream through heat-scorched thickets and over rocky trails toward India, always in higher spirits and better health than the male members of the party, to whom at the end of each day they gave...