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Sidewalk eatery in Chongqing during WWII. In the CBI.
Kitchen at Hsinching, China during WWII. T/Sgt. Paul West with cook. Photo from Paul A. West.
A theater in Chengdu during WWII. Photo from John Boudurant.
Buildings of Chongqing form the backdrop for farmers and rices paddies. 1944. Photo from Harold L. Block.
All bamboo "cables" and wood walkway suspension bridge over Min River, Guan county (Guanxian/Kwan Hsien), China, near the US Army rest camp. See related image here. Photo from Hampton Henton.
Local citizens lined up with buckets to collect water at Chongqing (Chungking), China, during WWII.
Photographer and funny man Syd Greenberg tries out a long pipe with a local Chinese gentleman, and soldiers and kids look on with enthusiasm, before the Salween River campaign.
Chinese women working rice paddies near Kunming during WWII, 1945.
A Chinese vendor carries his goods on a shoulder pole in the CBI during WWII. Photo by C. W. Leipnitz.
Farming in China: Farmer resting on wheelbarrow.