20-28 August 1944 Capt. George D. McGrath, 8266 Fountain Ave., Los Angeles, Calif., Burma Road Engineers, chats with a Chinese guard outside the guard\'s mud and straw shelter, during WWII. Photo by Pvt. B. E. Einson

Pat O'Brien and Jinx Falkenburg look over a B-25 of the Chinese-American Composite Wing (CACW) at Liuzhou (Liuchow), China, during a tour of the China-Burma-India Theater (CBI) of Operations with a camp show. In the background coolies pull up carts loaded with gasoline drums. 11-2-1944 Signal Corps Photo #CHI-44-50435 (Dillard)

"5529-116 A funeral in the CBI. Someone reads over a coffin with an American flag draped over its top, resting on a lawn somewhere in the CBI."

10CU 5G20 4 2ND T.C. AIR SUPPLY SEG. Dropping supplies by air.

KUNMING, CHINA--22 June 45... Every Friday the "Trojan" C-54 that travels non-stop from Calcutta to Kunming, China, arrives at the airbase bringing the copies of the "China Lantern" China Theater Newspaper. L to R: T/3 Andrew G. Hoover, Theater Information Education, Pfc David Holman, Omaha, Nebrl, ATC Flight Clerk, unload the papers from the "Trojan". Photo by Cpl J. J...

A B-29 bomber, tail #26340, under maintenance, with a Chinese soldier standing guard, in the CBI.

Luichow (Liuzhou) station, China-- Enroute with Kweilin (Guilin) evacuation party. Chinese use any mens of transportation to evacuate the area. 2 July 1944. Photo: H. P. Mcadams

August 2, 1944: No "A" card needed, but the difficulties of filing the cavernous gas tanks of a C-47 cargo plane make "stateside" rationing problems child's play. From US Government sources.