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The “Remembering Shared Honor” (RSH) project sets out to collect and preserve oral histories related to Chinese and American cooperation during the Second World War in the China-Burma-India(CBI) theater of war.
This historical archive has a total of 7,074 entries.
Chinese workers pulling a large roller at a base in Guangxi province (probably Liuzhou, but maybe Guilin), China. See related image. From the collection of Wozniak, combat photographer for the 491st Bomb Squadron, in the CBI.
Chinese workers pulling a large roller at a base in Guangxi province (probably Liuzhou, but maybe Guilin), China. See related image. From the collection of combat photographer Eugene T. Wozniak, 491st Bomb Squadron.
The notation provided by Al on the back of the photo is simply, "Waiting to evacuate." This is just prior to the Japanese over running the base (at Liuzhou or Guilin) in October 1944, as part of Ichigo.
American GIs crossing bomb crater on their way to a burning P-40, October 9, 1944. This is in Guangxi province, either Guilin or Liuzhou. Related picture here.