WWII CBI Burma Ledo Rd Engineer Cold War Morocco Operation Pegasus Passport Lot For Sale

From Local Tradesman to Jungle Pioneer: Jack started by honing his technical skills in California, only to find himself shipped halfway across the world to build the grueling Ledo Road under brutal monsoon conditions.
To the Front Lines of the Nuclear Age: Less than a decade after navigating the Burmese jungle, his specialized fabrication background made him a prime candidate for the high-clearance, top-secret sandbox of Project Nouasseur in French Morocco.
Irrefutable Provenance: Military documents can easily be mixed up over time, but the hand written time line on the map acts as the connective tissue for the whole lot. The handwritten dates and jungle outposts match the exact timeline of the 879th Engineer Aviation Battalion, proving that these items belong together and haven't been pieced together from separate estates.
Up for sale is a museum-quality named military archive belonging to Jack L. Smith (Army Serial Number: 19086880). This complete, single-owner collection beautifully spans two major 20th-century eras: his combat engineering service building tactical steel runways in Burma during WWII, and his high-clearance return to service building strategic nuclear bomber infrastructure in North Africa for the Cold War's Operation Pegasus.
Part I: The WWII Burma Jungle Campaign (1943–1945)
During World War II, Jack served as a Technician 5th Grade (T/5) specialist with the 879th Engineer Aviation Battalion (Airborne). Utilizing his background as a skilled sheet metal worker [vOQ7T9], Jack was part of the specialized force that built tactical combat airfields right behind frontline forces, using Pierced Steel Planking (PSP) to lay down instant runways in the deep jungle mud.
His hand-annotated campaign map perfectly mirrors the historical operations of the 879th step-by-step
Nov '43 — Ledo, India: Arrives at the base camp to begin the push
Jan '44 — Shingbwyang: Battalion builds an all-weather combat airstrip to supply Merrill's Marauders.
Feb–Mar '44 — Tainpa Ga & Tinghawk: Pushing airfields deeper into the Hukawng Valley.
Sept '44 — Shaduzup: Staged right above Myitkyina following the legendary glider-borne engineer assault
Nov '44 — Mogaung: Advancing south to secure logistical air supply hubs
Feb '45 — Muse: Reaches the Chinese frontier, opening the full Ledo-Burma Road land route
Mar '45 — Lashio: Final stationing at the peacetime rail terminus as the war draws to a close
Burma Items Included:
Hand-Annotated Map: The ultimate display piece tracking his exact 16-month campaign route
Domain of Neptunus Rex" Certificate (1943): Large ornate document tracking his equator crossing to India aboard the troopship USAT Mount Washington
Rare Theater-Printed Language Guide: Original pocket copy of “How to Get Along with the Kachins, Shans, & Burmans: A brief GUIDE to the peoples of NORTHERN BURMA”
1942 Army Pay Book: Documents his entry rank as an engineer specialist
1. Satirical Post-WWII Memo: Hilarious camp humor detailing instructions for jungle veterans returning to polite civilian society.
Part II: The Cold War & Operation Pegasus (1954–1955)
Following WWII, Jack worked as a professional fabricator for Sunset Sheet Metal in Sunnyvale, California [vOQ7T9]. In 1954, the U.S. government recruited his heavy-infrastructure engineering talents for the Cold War's Project Nouasseur in French Morocco
His official passport and Moroccan driving license [n40Gep] place him living inside the high-security perimeter of Nouasseur Air Base. This base was built by the Army Corps of Engineers to house the Strategic Air Command's (SAC) nuclear bomber fleet. Jack’s metalworking and engineering skills directly maintained the massive runways that supported Operation Pegasus—the historic SAC mission that proved the U.S. could deploy atomic bomber wings across the globe at a moment's notice
Cold War Items Included:
1954–1955 U.S. Passport: Fully loaded with security stamps from Sûreté Nationale - Casablanca and the Aerodrome de Nouasseur
Photo Driving Permit (Rabat, 1954): Lists his official residence as the "Nouasseur Project"
1955 Transatlantic Shipping Certificate: Document from the vessel M/B Srbija tracking his journey home to New York from Casablanca [cSufuR], featuring his handwritten personal contact notes on the reverse
WHO Medical Booklet: Lists his home address at 1067 Fulton Avenue, Sunnyvale, California