* * * * * In late spring of 1940, at the height of the dry season, Dad transferred to the Lonywa Oilfield at Chauk, Burma, located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, approximately 300 miles upriver, as the crow flies, from Rangoon. The Burmah Oil Company had offered my father a better position, and more money, if he’d make this transfer. In the end, dear reader, Pop learned there was a more Machiavellian reason behind this offer. So my folks shipped their household goods and servants by truck down to the Calcutta Docks, and followed them in their faithful Buick. Calcutta, India. Whereby everything and everybody was loaded onto a coastal freighter, and hauled by th...