Colonel T. Alan Bennett CO of "Al's Assassins", as his pilots have dubbed his fighter group, congratulates his Vice Commander, Major C. H. Yuan who escaped from the Japanese. His altered ear and neck scars are visible but the cloth is not a bandage but one of the silk scarfs made from salvaged parachute, worn by many fliers. Both are...

An indicator panel next to the door of a C-46 or C-47 transport's cargo door, used to coordinate air dropping of supplies. From the U.S. Government sources.

Religious services somewhere in the CBI, most likely in Yunnan province. A choir and chaplain use a truck as a handy mobile stage.

Second large city in the Siang Corridor to be reoccupied by Chinese ground forces is Liuchow (Liuzhou). Scene of heavy fighting, the city unlike Nanning which was evacuated with only minor damage, suffered severely... From the U.S. Government sources.

Evidence of the aerial and artillery beating Liuchow (Liuzhou) took before the Japanese evacuated on June 30, 1945. Both the city and its airfield were heavily damaged. From the U.S. Government sources.

The floating bridge at Liuzhou, Guangxi province. Looking north towards the main city. From the U.S. Government sources.

American servicemen load or unload supplies from a US C-47 transport plane, tail #316189. Since, according the stories shared by veterans, African-American servicemen rarely made it into China, this must be outside of China, most likely India or Burma.

AN ADVANCE AIR BASE, CHINA--First Lt. James H. Corbitt, 23-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. M.C. Corbitt, 231 Montgomery St., Troy, Alabama, has arrived in the China Theater and has been assigned to the Fourteenth Air Force's hard-hitting Chinese-American Composite Wing. Lt. Corbitt, who wife, Mrs. Yvonne H. Corbitt, and one-year-old son, Russell, reside at Brewton (PO Box 188) Ala...