Bundles of food and ammunition being loaded aboard a C-47 of the 14th Air Force Transport Unit. They will be kicked out to Chinese troops cut off from ground supply in eastern China.

During WWII in Kunming, China, on 29 September 1945, (L to R) R. Col. Chas. Haggerty, Sr., Liaison Officer (US) attached to Chinese 13th F. A. Regt. Col. Hwang 13th Reg.... Col Liang...

September 27, 1944 During WWII, a refugee from the advancing Japanese troops at Kweilin catches a nap under the wheels of a railroad car at the south station, Liuchow, China. Photo by Lt. N. J. Dain

September 27, 1944 During WWII, long view of the south station, Liuchow, China, showing refugees packed atop freight cars in their attempt to flee the Japanese drive on Kweilin (Guilin). Photo by Lt. N. J. Dain

A boxing match between 14th Air Force soldiers Mark M. Conn, Fred Andrews, and Johnny Babic. Sadly Fred Andrews died from complications from an operation shortly after the war finished, and he had returned to civilian life in Oregon, on 24 Mar 1946.

S/Sgt. Ira M. Brown, Corning, Iowa, receives Purple Heart from Col. D. L. Clark, Standing bedside are Lt. Col. A. A. Leonidoff, Col. J. C. Kennedy, and Lt. Col. John Groupman. According to report in his hometown paper, The Adams County Free Press (Iowa), on March 15, 1945, S/Sgt. Brown had been wounded in battle, and had been a gunner...

Capt. Albert Parr of the Fourteenth Air force makes a broad-jump at an American Forces track meet held in China during WWII.

Busting bridges such as this one south of Sulien (possibly Silian 思练镇 today) slowed down retreating Japanese giving Chinese ground forcers opportunity to inflict more casualties. Bridge busting has been a speciality of fliers of the 14th Air Force. Japanese forces retreated over this road towards Liuzhou.