local people

Man building roof of house in SW China during WWII.

A Chinese staff person at an American base in China during WWII carries buckets on a shoulder pole.

Workers in China load raised water storage tanks by hand via pails and rope lifts. Below is a boiler heating the water. At an American military base in China. During WWII.

Street scene on a snowy day in China during WWII, probably in Guangxi province.

Street scene in Guilin before the Allied retreat in the fall of 1944.

Street scene in Guilin, shortly before the Japanese advance in the fall of 1944.

A Chinese worker repairs a piston by hand at an American base in China during WWII.

A Chinese work rehabilitates engine gaskets by hand in China during WWII.

A beautiful taxi-dancer keeps a GI company at a ticket-a-dance site in China during WWII.

American air men who survived an air incident, with some of the Chinese men who took care of them on the ground. During WWII, in China. The plaque on the back is commemorating the construction of a local fortress ("青年堡垒").