local people

In the midst of calamity, a refugee mother tenderly washes her baby next to the train at the Liuzhou railway station in the fall of 1944.

Refugees and Nationalist soldiers flee Guilin and arrive near Liuzhou, in the face of the Japanese Ichigo campaign in the summer/fall of 1944.

A young boy sits among discarded furniture, presumably items that had ultimately been discarded, during their flight in the face of the Japanese Ichigo campaign in fall 1944.

A bustling street at Liuzhou to the south of the river, near the American air base in WWII.

Men shoulder a stretcher, possibly carrying recovered human remains. During WWII, in China.

In the near darkness, a man in China pulls a cart loaded with benches, an oven in a 55-gallon drum, a scale, and a son--a retail stand or eatery being taken out for a day of work, or being brought back after a day of work. During WWII.

In this fascinating photo--a virtual Norman Rockwell still-life of wartime life in China--Chinese troops, American troops, and Chinese civilians cross the Xiao river (潇水) via ferry near Lingling, China, during WWII. In the background, on the east bank of the river, is the Huilong Pagoda (零陵回龙塔), which remarkably still survives today, and has been restored.

A street scene in Kunming, China, during WWII.

Civilians come and go at a gate in a city wall in China during WWII.

Moving supplies by truck and hard human labor in China during WWII.