grave/burial

' The photographer and collector of the images in the Roubinek Collection in Yunnan province, China, during WWII. We know very little about this CBI veteran or the background of these images. See an overview here. An image from the Roubinek Collection, showing local scenes and local people in Yunnan province, China, most likely around the Luliang air base area...

' The photographer and collector of the images in the Roubinek Collection in Yunnan province, China, during WWII. We know very little about this CBI veteran or the background of these images. See an overview here. An image from the Roubinek Collection, showing local scenes and local people in Yunnan province, China, most likely around the Luliang air base area...

A Chinese grave near the American air base--the inscription is especially poignant, referring to a man named Fu Shouyong, crushed to death by an American aircraft during summer 1944, while far from his original home of Dinghai county, Zhejiang province (near the eastern seaboard of China). (浙江定海县傅守永） This was image was likely taken Yunnan province, China, most likely around the...

An image showing the GI photographer and collector of these photos (name unknown) sitting in front of a tomb, in Yunnan province, China.

Tombstone around the Luliang air base area in China during WWII.

' A letter to the family of Lt. James C. Vurgaropulos, who died during a mission in 1944 in China, regarding his grave site, this letter part of the myriad items of paperwork and procedures to be followed after James\'s death. This whole complicated process must have been of considerable sadness and pain for his loving family, who had lost...

A Memorial Day ceremony in Kunming, Yunnan province, China, during 1944. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

A temporary grave yard in the CBI. The cross of Lt. William Jonathan Davis, who died March 5, 1945, in the center. Gillick.

Wards and operating rooms of the 22nd Field Hospital's tent hospital at Kai Yuan. In the CBI during WWII. This hospital was apparently set up in some haste... notice the tombstone used to anchor the tent. Photo from Wesley Furste.