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 There was an elevated road that passed through rice paddies connecting the base to the Burma Road that led to the town of Kunming. A strip of trees ran parallel to the road for camouflage and around the compound of about eight barracks, four on each side of the road, a ditch running along side of the road, another four buildings down the way housing the Officers and the Base Commander, Colonel Gentry.
Kunming is about the same latitude as middle Florida or
Houston, Texas. Maybe two months of the year it might be cold enough for a
fire. And there was a monsoon season, but it was never too cold or windy.
Water was needed to grow rice and the Chinese farmers had a number of ways
of saving water that fell during the monsoon season. They took natural
streams and rivers and widened and banked them by hand. Most of them
started at a nearby lake that also stored water. The channels near the
lake were deeper, maybe 6-8 feet and were wider at the mouth until the
further away from the lake, they became a small creek.
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