Originally Posted By pandy
"Illegitimi non carborundum" was the original gag.

It was the motto of Vinegar Joe Stilwell, US General in charge of the China/Burma theatre in WWII. He was certainly one of the toughest and most difficult of the Allied Generals.

I have my father's Burma Star amongst his various medals. He was in Burma when the war ended. He was with the engineers surveying the route of the Burma Road. It is very likely that I crossed his "tracks" when I rode the Burma road on a motorbike tour that took us almost to the border of China and Burma before turning north.






Last edited by Gambalunga; 18/01/17 05:07 PM.
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