B-25s fly away from just-bombed Yishan (now Yizhou) in Guangxi province, SW China, among Karst peaks during the Japanese Ichigo campaign of summer and fall 1944. Towns along the Ichigo route were bombed by American planes as the Japanese moved into them, or sometimes in advance, to deny the resources of the towns to the incoming Japanese. The Japanese entered Yishan town on November 14, 1944, which should be the approximate date of this image--someone has labeled the path of Japanse entry directly on the original photograph. The Japanese stayed in Yishan until mid-June 1945, and allies bombed Yishan again in April 1945, bombing Japanese installations around the north east gates.
Original caption: "Typical Of The Terrain In The Kweichow-Kwangsi Railroad Zone In South China Is This Strike Picture Of The Bombing Of Ishan By North American B-25 Mitchells Of The 14Th Air Force. Picture Shows (A) Ishan In Flames (B) The Kweichow-Kwangsi Railroad (C) The Lung Kiang with valley floor of about 300 fee altitude and peaks running from 1500-2000 feed, (D) main highway to Laying and Nanning to the southward, and (E) the motorable road to Tienho on the north. Most of the cultivated land is in rices paddies. Landing places for aircraft are few and far between. (Ishan, China)"
See related image here.
Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.