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Engineers unwrap and prep a new engine in the CBI during WWII.

Mechanic on truck engine, needed to keep a truck running in China (CBI) during WWII.

16th Combat Camera Unit filming Chinese workers injured in a fall while repairing roof of hostel building in southwest China during WWII.

CHINESE AIRMEN GET AMERICAN TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT, 29 January 1944. Communications is an important phase in the training of the Chinese American Composite Wing (CACW) . Here, on January 29, 1944, Lt. Kwang Chao-Li checks a defective radio receiver at a test bench in the hanger. Sgt. Anthony Puflia, Paterson, New Jersey, left, stands by to offer assistance while Sgt...

S/Sgt. Ed Toy of Chicago, Illinois, repairs instruments of Curtiss P-40s at an aircraft factory somewhere in China during WWII. The factory was fitted to rebuild P-40s for the American Volunteer Group (AVG) and the Chinese continued the same operations for the U.S. Air Force. January 1, 1943. Photo by 7th Photo Tech. Sqdn, provided courtesy of Tony Strotman.

Master Sergeant Walter D. Zielinski helps a Chinese mechanic attach a cluster of bombs to a fighter plane of the CACW.

Sgt. Andrew R. Allegretto chats with Chinese airmen, with a B-25 in the background. Sgt. Allegretto received the Air Medal for flying on a hazardous mission as part of the "Spray and Pray Squadron," part of CACW. Andrew Ralph Allegretto in CBI arrived aboard MISSION BAY. He volunteered for some of the squadron’s most perilous missions. ALLEGRETTO, Andrew Ralph ("Swifty"...

CACW mechanics Sgt. R. G. Miller, and Sgt. Fu Yong Chie work on P-51 fighter in China during WWII.

CACW personnel work on fighter plane. Here Sgt. John H. Carl, Jr. assists Sgt. Y. K. Chen in repair work.

Sgt. Chang Lee Chen and Sgt. K. W. Ball make final adjustments to bomb for dive-bombing in the CACW during WWII in China.