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B-25s drop parachuted mines in Irrawaddy River during WWII. 22nd Bombardment Squadron, in Burma.

Runway at American airbase at Liuzhou, Guangxi province, in the CBI, after Japanese retreat in 1944. The runway was heavily damaged and mined.

Mines placed on left and right of this hole on a runway by retreating Japanese at Liuzhou, Guangxi province, in the CBI, to induce the curious to approach and thereby detonate the mines.

Mined runway at Liuzhou, Guangxi province, in the CBI after the Japanese retreat after Ichigo.

A disassembled Japanese mine dug up at Liuzhou, Guangxi province, in the CBI.

Japanese hoped to destroy personnel and equipment at the former Fourteenth Air Force base at Liuchow, but American soldiers have equipment with which to safely remove the mines. Liuchow was recaptured on 30 June, 1945.

FROM: PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE CODE: 07111635-L FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE Release Upon Rept Cleared Goldberg USF CT CHINESE HELP PUT LIUCHOW BASE BACK INTO OPERATION FOURTEENTH AIR BASE HEADQUARTERS -- IN CHINA -- Chinese workers from Liuchow report to work at the former Fourteenth Air Force Base there, which the Japanese evacuated on 30 May. Japanese left the former American airbase...

Retreat from Guilin, 1944. This looks like engineers are planting mines before the Japanese enter the city. Note the burned buildings in the background. From the collection of Hal Geer.

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.

Captain Berwyn Fly and Lt. Col. Wright Hiatt survey damage done to former 14th Air Force flight strip at Liuzhou (Liuchow) by the Japanese before retreating northward. In WWII.