Our project purchased a collection of images and a large number of unknown negatives from a dealer who had found them at an auction, and was uncertain what they contained. In the end there were over 500 images from the CBI, most in China, many in Yunnan province, probably at the Luliang air base and some at Chanyi (Zhanyi), a...

Nose art of a crashed B-24 bomber, B-24J-10 bomber, serial #42-51850, named "Lady Luck II" flew missions over Burma while assigned to 436 Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group, Tenth Air Force. The plane was transferred to Air Transport command, converted to a C-109 aerial tanker. It suffered severe damage in a landing accident at Luliang, China on 18 Nov 1944...

Nose art showing a women riding a falling bomb. During WWII, this B-24L serial 44-41431 was named "BOMBS AWAY". The plane flew missions in early 1945 assigned to 373rd Bomb Squadron, 308th Bomb Group, with the Fourteenth Air Force in China. After 373 BS operated from Luliang, China from 14 Sep 1944 until it transferred to Yontan, Okinawa 21 July...

GIs check out a village in SW China during WWII.

A farmer tends bundles of rice straw in SW China during WWII.

The door of the Yihe Garden Restaurant (义和园饭馆) at a village near an American air base in SW China during WWII.

A C-54 airplane at a base in SW China during WWII.

A B-25 with Nationalist markings, tail number #B31203, at an air base in Yunnan, China, during WWII.