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Furste

USS George E. Squier (AP-130) transport ship on October 12, 1945, as GIs boarded it to return stateside. Photo from Wesley L. Furste. In the CBI during WWII.
A very western and modernly dressed woman in India in October 1945. Photo from Wesley L. Furste. In the CBI during WWII. Above in an image collected by the editors of Ex-CBI Roundup (usually through reader submission) over many years of publication, and provided to the Remembering Shared Honor project.
Self-portrait of Wesley Furste as he made it with a mirror in Calcutta, India, in September, 1945. Photo from Wesley L. Furste.
Building the tent hospital at Kai Yuan. In the CBI during WWII. Photo from Wesley Furste.
Ship back home to US after war. "Homeward Bound! Kai Yuan (truck) to Kunming (air) to Calcutta (air) to Karachi, this ship through Suez Canal and Mediterranean Sea) to New York. (Whoopee!!!)" Photo from Wesley Furste.
Wards and operating rooms of the 22nd Field Hospital's tent hospital at Kai Yuan. In the CBI during WWII. This hospital was apparently set up in some haste... notice the tombstone used to anchor the tent. Photo from Wesley Furste.
A performing monkey in India during WWII. Photo from Dr. Wesley Furste.
Local people walking the streets of Karachi during their daily lives, during WWII. In the CBI, Oct0ber 1945. Photo from Dr. Wesley Furste.
Dr. Wesley Furste waves "good bye" to the CBI, about to fly home to the US from Kunming, via Calcutta. Sept. 15, 1945.