FROM: PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE CODE: 07111635-E FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE Release Upon Rept Cleared Goldberg USF CT CHINESE HELP REPAIR LIUCHOW AIRSTRIP FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS, IN CHINA-- When the Japanese left the former Fourteenth Air Force Base at Liuchow, they left it heavily mined and pockmarked with bomb craters. Workers set out to repair the damage, while engineers of the...

FROM: PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE CODE: 07111635-L FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE Release Upon Rept Cleared Goldberg USF CT CHINESE HELP PUT LIUCHOW BASE BACK INTO OPERATION FOURTEENTH AIR BASE HEADQUARTERS -- IN CHINA -- Chinese workers from Liuchow report to work at the former Fourteenth Air Force Base there, which the Japanese evacuated on 30 May. Japanese left the former American airbase...

Japanese hoped to destroy personnel and equipment at the former Fourteenth Air Force base at Liuchow, but American soldiers have equipment with which to safely remove the mines. Liuchow was recaptured on 30 June, 1945.

Battle cry of the liberators – Message on right of entrance to devastated photo studio, written in chalk by conquering Chinese ground troops declares "Reoccupation of Liuchow is prelude to final victory" (克服柳州是最后胜利的前奏). Before the battle around Liuzhou during Ichigo, this shop looked quite different [view].

Putting down barbed wire in the fall of 1944 in Liuzhou. Notice the English "United Artist Studio" in the back--after the Japanese retreat from Liuzhou, only those pillars stand [view].

After returning to Liuzhou (Liuchow), China, Capt. Robert C. Pettingell, 491st Bomb Squadron Flight Leader, poses next to some of the damage received by the B-25J he was flying on a mission against White Cloud airfield near Canton in the spring of 1944. (Info courtesy Tony Strotman)

Restaurant 10 miles east of Yangkai, Spring 1945. Clayton E. "Fred" Nash, holding carbine, does not quite blend in.

Thomas Clougherty and Leo Flanagan at Yangkai during WWII.