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Chinese crews work at a range finder, almost certainly in Liuzhou, October 9, 1944.

Busy street in Guilin, Guangxi province, China, in 1944.

Chinese troops cross the river at Lingling by barge during retreat in the face of the Japanese Ichigo campaign advances in the summer/fall of 1944.

Unloading (or loading) fuel barrels from C-47 transport plane #315380 in China during WWII. Note how some of the Chinese laborers are just teenagers, and overshadowed by the much larger adult American soldiers. See another photo of unloading same plane here.

Turning the engine on a B-25 at either Liuzhou or Guilin.

A Chinese man smokes from an elaborate decorated pipe in China during WWII.

During WWII, a child sells candied fruit on the street, probably in Yunnan. Local people in China, including a young candied fruit seller selling candied haws fruit on bamboo skewers. A reverse of this image can be seen in the Wozniak collection here.

Santa Claus, in full costume, makes an air transport arrival in the CBI during WWII.

"On troop ship USS Brazil. Skit 'Calling Mr. Galloway.' Jules Kaufman & Johnny Klock of the 16th CCU in the middle of the group." GIs on the way back home in the US after the war. The viewers include dozens of African-American GIs mixed in, before the stage. See related image here.

American GIs take pictures with oversized cameras in the CBI during WWII. From the collection of Hal Geer.