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' Top image (above) is closeup of the original WWII compacted rock and gravel runway at the American Yangkai airbase, at the very south end of the runway, during our visit in February on 2016. Bottom image is an overgrown but original WWII taxi way to a still extant revetment, large enough for a heavy bomber. See other images from...

' The familiar mountains to the west of the base that are the backdrop for so many wartime American pictures taken on the Yangkai base. For example, in the top image, the dark gully going down the face of the mountain can be clearly seen in this image (between the two men), and in this image (above the B-25 cockpit...

' Top image (above) is looking south from the northern end of the original WWII compacted rock and gravel runway at the American Yangkai airbase, during our visit in February on 2016. The whole extent of runway is intact today, and officially still the property of the People\'s Liberation Army, although it is in a practical sense not in use...

Top image (above) is the the village immediately adjacent to the former Yangkai airbase during our visit in February on 2016. The local people refer to the base by the name of the village, Longyuan (龙院), and not by Yangkai (or Yangjie in standard Mandarin; 羊街), which is a larger village some distance away. This village was heavily influenced by...

Chinese interpreter explaining the procedure for serving a meal to a group of Miao (ethnic) workers at the Laohwangping (Laohuangping) Airfield, China, in January, 1945. The control tower for the airbase can be see in the distance on the left. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

A laborer at an airbase in China. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

An airbase in Kunming city, Yunnan province, China, probably at the Wujiaba location, during WWII. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

GI in front of dirigible hanger in Karachi, India, during WWII. Image from Mark G. Mueller. In the CBI during WWII. Above in an image collected by the editors of Ex-CBI Roundup (usually through reader submission) over many years of publication, and provided to the Remembering Shared Honor project.

A runway on an airbase somewhere in the CBI during WWII. Photo from Dwight King.

"Jing-Bow" air warning shack in Chabua, 1942. In the CBI during WWII. Photo from Jim Fouch.