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Douglas J. Runk poses with local kids and soldiers in SW China during WWII.

Eugene Wozniak was a combat photographer who served in the CBI, as part of the 491st Bomb Squadron. He took many official photographs while in China, as part of his military responsibilities. At the same time, it seems that photographers were given some latitude in what they photographed, and he took many images of the environment around him and people...

Excavation before construction at an American base in China during WWII. The pillars are limestone, left after the soft soil had been dug away. Likely to be in Guangxi, either Liuzhou or Guilin.

Recreation: GIs do a tortoise and the hare race, possibly at a charity event. In China during WWII.

A runner crosses the finish line at a track meet in China during WWII, on October 23, 1944.

Guilin street scene 1944. From the collection of Hal Geer.

Chinese farmers work in fields outside an American air base in SW China during WWII.

Chinese civilians looking over a bridge destroyed near Liuzhou before the Japanese advance in the fall of 1944.

A tired elderly refugee resting on a bridge in Guilin in summer/fall 1944, in front of the Japanese advance. From the collection of Hal Geer.