Members of CACW make a recording with the C-3-I Recording Unit at Guilin (Kweilin), China, during April 1944. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

Chennault holds Tayng Wong and Toong Di, who had come with Col P. Y. Shu, interpreter, to present Chennault Christmas greetings written by grade school children. During WWII. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

October 2, 1944 Burma Road Engineer camp west of the Salween, showing the river in the background. Photo by T/5 G. L. Kocourek

Demolished bridge over the Liujiang river (柳江) at Liuzhou, Guangxi province, in the CBI, destroyed by Chinese troops are they retreated before the Japanese Ichigo Campaign in 1944

Rubble and skeleton buildings--all that was left of most of Liuchow [Liuzhou] after heavy aerial bombing and artillery shelling during Japanese occupation." Notice how the original text, scratched out, tells who did the bombing, "...almost continuous Fourteenth Air Force aerial bombardment..." From US Government sources.

This Chinese girl, near starvation, was found in Liuchow [Liuzhou] after the Japanese evacuated the town in their retreat up the Siang Corridor. She sits among damaged buildings awaiting the reentry of Chinese and allied forces. Liuzhou is the second large city to fall on the Japanese GEA Lifeline. Nanning was reoccupied on May 27, 1945. From US Government sources.

Liuchow [Liuzhou] was the scene of hard fighting before the Japanese finally evacuated it. These three Chinese children make the best of their lot as reoccupation of the city goes forward. Liuzhou is the second large city to fall on the Japanese GEA Lifeline. Nanning was reoccupied on May 27, 1945. From US Government sources.

When the Japanese left Liuchow [Liuzhou], there was not much city for the civilians to come back to. This picture, made while the Japanese were still on the outskirts, shows the damage which the Japanese did to the town. From US Government sources.