revetment

B-24 "Snafu," in CBI during WWII. The GI figure is holding a paper labeled "T. S. Ticket."

B-24 "Bonnie Belle," in CBI during WWII.

Radar men at Chenggong air base, Yunnan, China. During WWII. Ira Underwood, Jack Leonard. 374th Bombardment Squadron B-24 "Massa's Dragon" #42-109862 in revetment at Chenggong.

Radar men at Chenggong air base, Yunnan, China. During WWII. Ira Underwood, Tom Cook. 374th Bombardment Squadron B-24 "Massa's Dragon" #42-109862 in revetment at Chenggong.

Radar men at Chenggong air base, Yunnan, China. During WWII. Ira Underwood, Bill Lesak. 374th Bombardment Squadron B-24 "Massa's Dragon" #42-109862 in revetment at Chenggong.

Radar men at Chenggong air base, Yunnan, China. During WWII. Ashod (likely Ashod Janigian), Bill Lesak, Marion "Marty" Martin, Tom Cook. 374th Bombardment Squadron B-24 "Massa's Dragon" #42-109862 in revetment at Chenggong.

Radar men at Chenggong air base, Yunnan, China. During WWII. Tom Cook, Jack Leonard, and Bill Lesak. B-24 "Massa's Dragon" in revetment at Chenggong.

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.

The B-24 "Maxwell House II" being refueled in a revetment in SW China, likely Sichuan, during WWII. Courtesy of https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsphoto/id/7812.

A shark-mouth B-24, the mouth having a unique curl at the back, in a revetment in SW China, likely Sichuan, during WWII. This is a later model B-24 as indicated by the nose turret with two .50 cal machine guns. Courtesy of https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsphoto/id/7807.