1944

The Liuzhou south train station during the evacuation in the face of the Japanese advance in the fall of 1944. Notice that someone has scraped out the name of the station on the photo itself.

Newly installed barbed wire and barricades in Liuzhou before the Japanese Ichigo advance in the fall of 1944.

A GI and a local elite (ie, the daughter or wife of an important local person) pay respects to a refugee at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

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...

A refugee train at Liuzhou, Guangxi province, China, during the Japanese Ichigo campaign. During WWII.

Chinese refugees at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese refugees make do at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese refugees at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Chinese refugees take a meal at the train station in Liuzhou during WWII, in the fall of 1944, as the Japanese advanced during the Ichigo campaign.

Bustling street scene of Chinese civilians and Nationalist soldiers not far from the south side of the floating bridge at Liuzhou, near the American air base, around the time of the evacuation of fall 1944.