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Douglas Runk (top image) lays out his gear, including a pistol, somewhere in SW China during WWII. The lower image might be another GI. The symbol painted on the middle under the jeep's windscreen indicates US Army's Y-FOS liaison team attached to Chinese Y-Force.

GIs stride through downtown Kunming during WWII.

GIs salvaging precious fuel that had fallen into the stream. Related image here.

Getting a few last vehicles across a bridge at Liuzhou before the Japanese advance in the fall of 1944. The bridge decking planks have been removed, but there are enough free planks that by moving a few planks, then moving forward a bit on those planks, then moving a few more planks, the jeep can creep across. To see a...

GIs posing looking at map next to their camouflaged jeep. In China during WWII.

A Chinese mechanic working on a locally cast piston for a jeep.

American GIs read (top image), and pose with Chinese staff person (bottom image), at an American base in China during WWII.

Getting a few last vehicles across a bridge at Liuzhou before the Japanese advance in the fall of 1944. The bridge decking planks have been removed, but there are enough free planks that by moving a few planks, then moving forward a bit on those planks, then moving a few more planks, the jeep can creep across. For a related...

Major Wilfrid M. Cline, commander of 16th Combat Camera Unit from May 1943 to February 1945, at the driver's seat of a jeep at an American base in China during WWII. Two others unknown. Wilfrid M. Cline had a significant Hollywood career both before and after the war.

An American aircraft burns at a base in China during WWII.