local people

Lt. Colonel Wright Hiatt, Winchester, Indiana, and Capt. Berwyn Fry, 7314 Bennett Ave., Chicago, Ill., Engineers with the 14Th Air Force, and a Chinese worker, with two of the Japanese mines removed from the air strip, at Liuzhou (Liuchow), China.

GIs dig slit trench in China during WWII, as local Chinese man looks on. James F. Porter, in center with pick, is digging because of a penalty for infraction of regulations.

Members of air freight crew, both GIS and local people, in China during WWII. Front row: Cpl. Stanko, Sgt. Virgil A. Green, Sgt. Gorer, Pfc. Bartko, Pvt. Spears. Background on truck: Pvt. Firestone. 396th Air Service Squadron of the 12th Air Service Group. Official U.S. Gov image. (Thanks to J. Hyche for providing his uncle Virgil Green's first name, and...

A woman being pulled in a rickshaw is stopped by an MP in the CBI.

Local girl Shu Mei Chow stand before door decorated with door gods near the time of Chinese New Year in the village of Siang Shi Tsah, during WWII. Some of these were put out by the OWI in color.

Sgt. Robert E. Hogue of Florida gets a Christmas haul of presents, a record of 13 packages. He hired a Chinese boy to help him carry them.

Chinese women flee Japanese air raid on Kunming during WWII.

Airstrip building by hand in China during WWII. U.S. Gov pic.

War-torn Liuzhou city in late 1945.

American jeeps run gauntlet of fireworks in Chinese town.