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Lengthening E-W runway, Chaukulia, India Dec 1943 or Jan 1944.

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.

Chinese aircraft mechanics and engineers pose at an air base in China during WWII. Behind them are damaged airplanes used for parts.

Airstrip building by hand in China during WWII. U.S. Gov pic.

Remains of a blast in a runway, probably Liuzhou after retreat from the Japanese in 1944.