recreation & entertainment

GI with mitt playing baseball at a tent city in Kunming, China, during WWII.

Americans play volleyball at a rest camp in China, almost certainly Camp Schiel, in Yunnan, during WWII.

Kunming Hostel: "Hostel #3 from roof of HQ, 44 Gal. gas drums nearby" Note man holding basketball in foreground.

16th CCU personnel at a party having jolly time in Kunming city, Yunnan province, China, during WWII.

A chariot race in Chanyi, China during WWII.

Youth from the Xiaogu high school basketball team in Yunnan province, China, during WWII.

Capt. Albert Parr of the Fourteenth Air force makes a broad-jump at an American Forces track meet held in China during WWII.

A boxing match between 14th Air Force soldiers Mark M. Conn, Fred Andrews, and Johnny Babic. Sadly Fred Andrews died from complications from an operation shortly after the war finished, and he had returned to civilian life in Oregon, on 24 Mar 1946.

Titled "Our 'Rec' Hall", the "Loafers Lounge" recreation hall in the CBI, in China.

David Firman reads a magazine in his quarters in China during WWII.