From inside Grand Hotel toward Firpo's, Calcutta June 1943.

From the court of the Grand Hotel. looking over the opposite roof across Calcutta, June, 1943.

"When this was taken the wind was blowing cold, some time last spring. The boy on the left, Butch, is from Woonsocket, and Nash is from Maine. Center: Frank Bates, China 1944."

GI poses among the rubble. Bomb damage on a street corner in Liuchow (Liuzhou). The city and airfield both suffered heavily during the fighting that preceded the Japanese evacuation on June 30, 1945. A American serviceman stands in the foreground, next to a slogan that reads in Chinese, "Support Chairman Jiang", and the name of the building formerly, the "Lucky...

What was formerly a group of modern Chinese buildings in Liuchow now resembles a sprawling brickyard. Heavy aerial bombardment and artillery shelling made rubble of most of the city, and, combined with the advance of Chinese ground troops, contributed to the evacuation of the Japanese after Ichigo.

FROM: PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE CODE: 07111635-D FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE Release Upon Rept Cleared Goldberg USF CT LIUCHOW WORKERS FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS, IN CHINA-- Workers from Liuchow help to repair the former Fourteenth Air Force base there after the Japanese evacuated 30 June. The Japs mined and damaged the strip. A team of Chinese workers clears dirt and rubble after...

FROM: PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE CODE: 07121500 FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE RELEASE UPON RECEIPT CLEARED GOLDBERG USFCT FOURTEENTH AIRFORCE PHOTOGRAPHER, FIRST AMERICAN TO ENTER LIUCHOW HEADQUARTERS, FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE, CHINA --- Cpl. James C. Bowermaster, of 2608, Arctic Ave., Atlantic City, New Jersey, Fourteenth Air Force photographer, was the first American soldier to enter Liuchow after the Japs evacuated the city and...

FROM: PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE CODE 07121500 RELEASE UPON RECEIPT CLEARED GOLDBERG USFCT DEVASTATION OF REOCCUPIED LIUCHOW HEADQUARTERS, FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE, CHINA --- The ruins of Liuchow, after the Japanese had evacuated it 30 June, as seen from the South Bank of the Liu Kiang. 14TH AIR FORCE ORIGINATED BY: PRO (RH) From the U.S. Government sources.