Guilin 桂林

Air Force dispensary at Guilin (Kweilin), China. This building, constructed of mud and bamboo, was equipped to handle major surgical cases." (Info thanks to TexLonghorn and tonystro)

Barracks used by the 14th Air Force personnel based at (Guilin) Kweilin Air Base in China during WWII. (Info thanks to TexLonghorn)

Karst mountains at Guilin, Guangxi province, China, during WWII.

A Chinese Nationalist pill-box fortification being built in the road at an intersection in Guilin, before the Japanese advance in the fall of 1944.

Guilin Engineering Area--396th Air Service Squadron men, first row (left to right): ?, ?. Back row: Knecht, ??, Rhoads, ??.

"Heading For Our new Home --After Flying The Hump Into Kunming We Moved By Truck Convoy To Our New Home In Kwelin. This Is A Photo Of The Convoy Stopped For A Break Along The Way. For The Final Leg Of This Trip We Loaded Everything On Flat Cars And Finished The Trip To Kwelin By Rail. " Caption courtesy...

"Our First Home In China--This is a picture of our engineering area at Kwelin [Guilin],China. This was our first stop after leaving Kunming in January 1944. We had crews on detached service on bases at Hengyang, Chickiang, Chanyi, Ankang, Luichow, Nanning and Tanchuck. We were proud of the work performed at Kwelin. We built eight P-40's from the scrap-yard and...

Sgt Richard Dille “Dick” Arbogast, killed along with the rest of the B-24 crew during crash 28 May 1944, in China. (Photo courtesy of Vindicator I.) See background of crash here. Sgt. Arbogast was 23 years old. His family received a last letter from him dated April 10, 1944. See more of his personal story at USAAF Memoriam.

Elmer Bukey posing alongside a salvaged P-40 in the service area at Guilin. During WWII.

"We had many night-time visits from the Japanese and when that happened we headed for the caves around our hostel areas. This picture was taken from inside one of those caves overlooking the 396th hostel area. Needless to say this picture was not taken during an air raid but by someone that wanted to see what the area looked like...