local people

Farming in China. In the CBI.

A wealthy family in Manchu dress during WWII in the CBI. Photo from Henry Herbert.

Rice farming in China, near Kunming. In the CBI.

Local people get a tasty breakfast at a breakfast stand at a market somewhere in China during WWII. Hickey.

A pair of cute kids near Kunming, China, during WWII. Image provided by Dorothy Yuen Leuba. Among the images collected by the editors of Ex-CBI Roundup (through reader submission), and shared with the Remembering Shared Honor project, were a series of images provided by Dorothy Yuen Leuba. Because of her travels over an extended time in China, her photos include...

A village gate in a style once typical of Yunnan and Guizhou province, with a saying "Mountains Lofty and Clouds Deep" (“岭峻云深”) written above the gate. During WWII. Photo from George Pollock.

T/5 C. W. Leipnitz and a Chinese family pose together is a small village near Kunming, China, during WWII.

A Chinese toddler playing on a the driver's seat of a jeep in downtown Chengdu, China, during WWII.

Lt. Vernon Swanson, profile, center, in downtown Qionglai 邛崃 (Kiunglai), China, about 30 miles from Chengtu, during WWII. GI were with the 462nd Bomb Group, 768th Squadron (B-29s).

Chinese laborers extract water from the lake near Camp Schiel, Yunnan province, to use to build a road, work done by hand tools and hard labor. During WWII.