Liuzhou 柳州

Southwest of Liuchow, fighters of the Fourteenth Air Force caught a cavalry column headed towards Liuchow following the Japanese retreat after Ichigo. The Japanese did not have time to bury their dead and the remains of horses and horsemen lay scattered throughout the valley.

Lt. Colonel Wright Hiatt, Winchester, Indiana, and Capt. Berwyn Fry, 7314 Bennett Ave., Chicago, Ill., Engineers with the 14Th Air Force, and a Chinese worker, with two of the Japanese mines removed from the air strip, at Liuzhou (Liuchow), China.

A wrecked Japanese airplane left at Liuzhou after the Japanese retreat after Ichigo. See GIs inspecting this plane here.

Captain Berwyn Fly and Lt. Col. Wright Hiatt survey damage done to former 14th Air Force flight strip at Liuzhou (Liuchow) by the Japanese before retreating northward. In WWII.

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Street in Liuzhou before Japanese occupation in late 1944.

The busy floating bridge at Liuzhou. Looking generally north.

American hostels at the base burn during the American and Chinese retreat before the Japanese arrive during the Ichigo push in the fall of 1944. Guangxi province, Liuzhou air base.

A view across part of American air base at Liuzhou in 1945, after being reoccupied by American and Chinese forces following Japanese withdrawal in 1945. Note apparent B-25 in tidy revetment, driving jeep, and ruins of base buildings, destroyed during Allied retreat, Japanese occupation, and again during Japanese withdrawal.