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APO 627

Rickshaw puller poses with his customer, Cpl. William C. Burwinkel. Yunnan Province on December 13, 1944. Photo by T/5 John B. Hendrick. Passed by William E. Whitten.
Cpl. Harold C. Brunner interacts with Chinese and child during WWII in China. Yunnan Province on December 13, 1944. Photo by T/5 John B. Hendrick.
Cpl. Raymond B. Gutoski, Pfc. Virgil A. Horner, S/Sgt. George A. Boden, of 2nd Platoon, 704th AB AAA Battalion, on duty guarding the Tengchong airstrip, are shown cleaning their .50 caliber water-cooled machine gun. Yunnan Province on December 5, 1944. Photo by T/Sgt. S. L. Greenberg. Passed by censor Samuel Goldberg.
Maj. Gen. G. X. Cheves, C/G of SOS in China makes speech to personnel of the 95th Station Hospital at APO 627. Kunming, Yunnan Province on December 13, 1944. Photo by Pvt. S. Israel. Passed by censor William E. Whitten.
Pre-Christmas scene at the SOS (Service of Supply) PX at APO 627. Cpl Harold L. Graff, Cpl. Ben L. Rohleder, 1st Lt. Frances J. Vesset, and Anna Wong. December 15, 1944. Photo by Pfc. Thomas F. Melvin. Passed by censor Emanuel Goldberg.
Maj. Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer and Col. Seedlock of the B. R. E. discussing the present situation. Yunnan Province on December 18, 1944. Photo by T/Sgt. S. L. Greenberg. Passed by censor William E. Whitten.
Maj. Gen. G. X. Cheves, C/G of SOS in China inspecting personnel of the 95th Station Hospital at APO 627. Kunming, Yunnan Province on December 13, 1944. Photo by Pvt. S. Israel. Passed by censor William E. Whitten.
Burials of 1st Lt. John B. Leskie (middle initial corrected, for "Benard"), Flight Officer John G. Meuth, 2nd Lt. Lawrence A. Swanson, S/Sgt. Edward Lietener, Sgt. David H. Randolph. All men were members of the 322nd Troop Carrier Squadron. Maj. Gen. Wedemeyer and Maj. Gen. G. X. Cheves were present at the funeral ceremony. Their unarmed transport plane crashed--in some...
T/5 Theodore E. Eitel directs children in cleaning his Burma Road Engineers truck, after a day of hauling rock for the Kao Tien district of the Burma Road being built from Lungling, China, to meet the Ledo Road at the Burma border. Yunnan Province on December 1, 1944. Photo by T/Sgt. Greenberg. B-Detachment, 164th Signal Photographic Company, APO 627. Passed...
Capt. O. D. Propps, American Liaison Officer, and Col. Tung Tau, commanding 388 Regiment, 130th Division, 53rd Chinese Army, inspect captured Japanese heavy machine gun, captured on Li La Hill northwest of Chefang. This machine gun fires 7.92 mm ammunition. Yunnan Province on November 28, 1944. Photo by T/5 W. E. Shemorry. B-Detachment, 164th Signal Photographic Company, APO 627. Passed...