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Nurse LaRetta Matthews Garland at a rest camp in China, in image from Jim Lewter, who was stationed at the 95th Station Hospital in Kunming. Some of Nurse Garland's story below: From autumn 1943 until summer 1945, Lakeland native Lt. LaRetta “Matty” Matthews was “over the Hump,” a nurse with the 95th Station Hospital in Kunming, China. Five thousand miles...

Japanese nurses assemble for morning call at the Wuchang Hospital after the hostilities had ceased. Photo by Way. In the CBI.

Selig Seidler plays patient being loaded into or out of a C-47 transport in a publicity movie:"During filming for nurses publicity move. Acting as stretcher case, S. Seidler, feeling fine."

An American Red Cross worker in the CBI.

Chinese and American nursing staff in the CBI, probably at Yangkai.

A crowd of servicemen in robes and in uniforms sit around a table playing bingo, with three Chinese nurses looking on in curiosity. A single female American also looks on.

A group of Americans and two Chinese prepare to sing off a sheet of paper into a microphone.

Three Chinese women wait for American servicemen to come pay for a dance at a dance hall in the CBI.

An American woman keeping up appearances in Guilin during WWII. From the collection of Hal Geer.

American service men and women pose before "Old 59," March 1944.