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Alice Chong on the Kunming air strip posing before a C-54 with some of her 14th U.S.A.A.F buddies in 1944. Note the blood chit prominently-displayed inside the flying jacket of the Colonel Pilot at center rear. Captain Addison Bailey (in dark shirt) to Alice’s immediate right-all others unidentified. (Images and information primarily courtesy of Brian Dillon.)

Radio station tents and towers, with antennas, at an American air base in WWII in Yunnan province, China.

Communications shack of the 23rd Airways Detachment at the Kunming Air Base, Kunming, China. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

Californians of the 425th Bomb Squadron and WASC record "Yanks In The Orient" for later transmission in the US. Kunming, China, November, 1944. M.C. was Lt. Bert Parks, later of post-war fame as the M. C. of the Miss America Pageant. Photo from Robert L. Cowan.

A building sprouting numerous radio antennas in the CBI during WWII.

Tightly packed radio room in the CBI during WWII, with American GIs busy at the equipment.

GIs operating radio equipment in the CBI during WWII.

High speed radio operator working from a bamboo hut in the jungle, the key operated by his right hand. His partner supplies the power from a generator with a two-handed crank. US Signal Corps photo.

CHINESE AIRMEN GET AMERICAN TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT, 29 January 1944. Communications is an important phase in the training of the Chinese American Composite Wing (CACW) . Here, on January 29, 1944, Lt. Kwang Chao-Li checks a defective radio receiver at a test bench in the hanger. Sgt. Anthony Puflia, Paterson, New Jersey, left, stands by to offer assistance while Sgt...

"Communications ground maintenance." Men of the 27th Troop Carrier Squadron surround a large radio unit with tall antenna in the CBI (most likely China).