There needed to be an overland route of supply from India to China in WWll.
And it is of his friend and community activis.
This is the story of one Jefferson Goode, a jazz trumpet player, who writes the diary.
Under the command of Lewis Pick they turned jungle into road.
They fought disease, leeches, the monsoon and the Japanese to get it done.
The job fell to General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, and he brought 15,000 black men from America to Ledo, Assam in India to do it.
Someone had to build it.
There needed to be an overland route of supply from India to China in WWll