This is the Fourteenth Air Force base at Liuchow [Liuzhou] as Americans accompanying the Chinese Ground Forces found it ditched, pitterd, cratered, and mined upon their arrival after the Japanese had evacuated it. The air base at Liuchow was lost to the Japanese on 7 November 1944. Japanese were never able to capitalize it as Fourteenth Air Force bombers and...

Pvt. Louie E. Mallette Jr., son of Mrs. L.E. Mallette, R.D. 2, Lucedale, Miss., explains the intricacies of a camera to a Chinese photo laboratory technician at headquarters of the Fourteenth Air Force's hard-hitting Chinese-American Composite Wing. Pvt. Mallette who has been overseas since July 23, 1944, has been assigned to the wing's photographic section as a photographer and camera...

Throughout the world the American soldiers' fondness for children has become well known and in China it is no exception. Scores of orphans have been adopted by men of the Major-General C. L. Chennault\'s Fourteenth Air Force. here Staff Sergeant Elwood Clark of 2922 Coleman Ave., Corpus Christi, Texas, is shown holding Marie Liu, 6-year old girl who was found...

It’s a water buffalo, China’s beast of burden, which Ol Melvin Sisk, prominent former Gresham, Tex., Chamber of Commerce manager, is handling with expert care somewhere in China. It’s far from being a Texas longhorn, says Cpl Sisk, who should know, being a former fair and rodeo manager. Cpl. Sisk, son of Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Sisk, 707 College...

Pfc Eugene Riede holds a large collection of Chinese currency, in China, during WWII.

Troops of the 200th Div., Chinese 5th Army, wait at the loading point of the Yunnanyi airbase, China, in preparation for the air trip in C-47's to Paoshan (Baoshan). 9/15/44 Signal Corps Photo #CBI-44-50292 (Tec 4 George Clayton), from 164 Sign Photo Co.

Bundles to be dropped by parachute are being tied to static line. The chutes will open automatically when kicked from the doorway to besieged Chinese troops by members of the Fourteenth Air Force Transport Unit.

From: Public Relations Office Fourteenth Air Force Code 070414200 Release On Rcpt Cleared Goldberg USFCT -FIRST PICTURES FROM REOCCUPIED LIUCHOW AREA- Medical Supplies Arrive at Ping Yang Fourteenth Air Force Headquarters, In China-- After the Japanese retreated from the area between Nanning and Liuchow American forces brought in equipment and hospital supplies, First American convoy is received at Ping Yang...