Alice Chong outside the HQ building at Kunming in 1944, holding the Dachshund puppy that her roommate Eloise Witwer gave to General Chennault. Chennault named the dog “Little Joe” and then changed its name to “Joe-Dog” after it grew up.
The name, of course, was a way of getting back at his nemesis, General Joseph Stilwell because, as Chennault would often say, “Both were low-down, sons of bitches”. . .
Note the notice for the upcoming “Rice Bowl” football game pinned to the door frame too.
This is likely Thanksgiving, 1944, in Kunming.
(Images and information primarily courtesy of Brian Dillon.)