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1944

Chinese market in Myitkyina, Burma, 1944. Notice the nationalist insignia over the entry gate, (despite it being Burma) and the Chinese banner, saying essentially "Overseas Chinese Village" ("华侨新村"). Photo from Bill Tislow.
P-38 Black Widows parked in Kunming in the CBI during WWII, 1944.
GIs with Zhou Enlai in Yan'an in October 1944, standing in front of C-47. Photo from Colonel W. J. Peterkin.
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.
Countryside near A-5 base in Sichuan, during WWII, fall of 1944. Photo from C. M. Miller.
Merrill's Marauders focussing on target #30, northern Burma, during WWII. May 27, 1944. Photo from Paul Jones.
Three men in northern China, near Tung-Poo Railway, Hepei (Hebei) province, China. "Tang Tze An, Wang Shiang (interpreter)." December 20, 1044. In the CBI during WWII.
Capt. Jack Herfurt, of Joint Intelligence Collection Agency (JICA), "with one of the Navy cars we kept out of the Theatre Motor Pool." New Delhi, 1944.