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.)

Alice Chong pressed into public relations duty at Kunming during the winter of 1943-44. When a visiting troupe of USO entertainers, Hollywood actors, visited the 14th U.S. Army Air Force base, Alice was detailed to lead them around, answer their questions, translate for them, and in general make them feel at home. Of the four Hollywood actors at center, Edmund...

Major Gen. A.C. Wedemeyer and Brig. Gen. Frank Dorn leaving plane at Tengchong airport. December 18, 1944. Photo by T/Sgt. S. L. Greenberg. 164th Signal Photographic Company, APO 627. Passed by William E. Whitten.

From a C-47 these Chinese are seen unloading food for the Chinese who are building the new road towards the Burma border to meet the Ledo Road. December 11, 1944. Photo by T/Sgt. S. L. Greenberg. 164th Signal Photographic Company, APO 627. Passed by William E. Whitten.

Unloadeding AAC equipment from C-47 at Tengchong airstrip. December 14, 1944. Photo by T/Sgt. S. L. Greenberg. 164th Signal Photographic Company, APO 627. Passed by William E. Whitten.

Col. James O. Wade of New York poses at what should be the Southwestern Association University Of Kunming, Yunnan Province, on December 16, 1944. Photo by Pfc. Thomas F. Melvin. Passed by censor Emanuel Goldberg.

Burials of 1st Lt. John B. Leskie (middle initial corrected, for "Benard"), Flight Officer John G. Meuth, 2nd Lt. Lawrence A. Swanson, S/Sgt. Edward Lietener, Sgt. David H. Randolph. All men were members of the 322nd Troop Carrier Squadron. Maj. Gen. Wedemeyer and Maj. Gen. G. X. Cheves were present at the funeral ceremony. Their unarmed transport plane crashed--in some...

A GI tries out a shoulder pole in China during WWII.