refugees

A young boy sits among discarded furniture, presumably items that had ultimately been discarded, during their flight in the face of the Japanese Ichigo campaign in fall 1944.

Chinese refugees take a meal in front of the train engine in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese refugee--a young girl in this case--tends a cooking fire to boil water next to the train tracks in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese wait at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese refuges tends a cooking fire to boil water next to the train tracks in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

A Chinese refugee resting and hiding from the heat near a train at Liuzhou during the evacuation in Guangxi during the fall of 1944.

A Chinese refugee making shade from the hot sun between train cars. At the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese refugee waits atop flatbed car at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

A GI and a local elite (ie, the daughter or wife of an important local person) pay respects to a refugee at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese refugees at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.