evacuation/retreat

Chinese refugees at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese refugees take a meal at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Bustling street scene of Chinese civilians and Nationalist soldiers not far from the south side of the floating bridge at Liuzhou, near the American air base, around the time of the evacuation of fall 1944.

The railway bridge at Lingling, destroyed. WWII. Another angle:

Chinese retreat about 75-100 miles east of Lingling in the fall of 1944, crossing a river by ferry.

Chinese troops cross the river at Lingling by barge during retreat in the face of the Japanese Ichigo campaign advances in the summer/fall of 1944.

Ferry and footbridge 13 miles east of Ping Yang (平阳镇), which the Japanese had used during their retreat towards Liuzhou. Crossings like this one were bottlenecks that allowed attacks by 14th Air Force planes and Chinese ground troops. During WWII.

Soldiers of the 14th Air Force, aided by Chinese soldiers and workers, remove bombs from the ammunition dump preparatory to abandoning the Hengyang Airfield.

Patient loaded in the waist of a B-24 for evacuation. Bomb-bay litter support are also used.

Air evacuation using a B-24 showing loading of a patient through the waist window.