Salween River

Y-Force Liaison Team prepares a pig for dinner at the 4th of July celebration, 1944, near Pingka Ridge, Burma, during the Salween River Campaign. Photo by Syd Greenberg.

Convoy with Chinese troops in Salween Gorge, January 30, 1945. US Army Photo.

Photographer and funny man Syd Greenberg tries out a long pipe with a local Chinese gentleman, and soldiers and kids look on with enthusiasm, before the Salween River campaign.

Lonely, winding section of Burma Road near the Salween River in southwest China, during WWII. Photo by George Pollock.

Pvt. Thomas J. Gardner, Georgetown, Ky., road patrol operator of the Burma Road Engineers, grades part of the road west of the Salween River. Burma, 10/1/1944. During WWII in the CBI. Signal Corps Photo by Tec 5 C.L. Kocourek.

October 2, 1944 Burma Road Engineer camp west of the Salween, showing the river in the background. Photo by T/5 G. L. Kocourek

A suspension bridge on the Salween river, Yunnan province, China.

A bridge over the Salween river in Yunnan province, China, during WWII.

Burma Road and Salween River, in far western Yunnan province, during WWII. Note bridge in lower left corner.