Original U.S. WWII Ledo Road CBI Class A Uniform Jacket with Battle Stars

Original Item: Only One Available. The Ledo Road was well on its way through Burma and would need a symbol. In April of 1944 a competition to design a Ledo Road insignia was announced by General Pick and published in the April 13, 1944 issue of CBI Roundup, theater newspaper. T/4 Robert Smith, a cartographic illustrator assigned to the 20th General Hospital, had samples made for his design entry. The October 5, 1944 edition of CBI Roundup contained an announcement of the contest results. According to that account, there were actually three winners and T/4 Robert Smith was not listed as one of them. Roundup listed T/Sgt. R. G. Powell of Atlanta, Ga., Engineers; T/4 Stewart D. Randolph of Chicago, Ill., Engineers, and T/4 Ralph B. Fuller of Minneapolis, Minn., Ordnance, as co-winners of the award. The photo from Roundup showed two Red Cross women holding a large sample of the winning design, which was said to be a compilation of the three winners' entries. This account may have been from