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The “Remembering Shared Honor” (RSH) project sets out to collect and preserve oral histories related to Chinese and American cooperation during the Second World War in the China-Burma-India(CBI) theater of war.
This historical archive has a total of 7,073 entries.
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.
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.
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.
Two patients at the Convalescent Camp (#3) in Kunming, China, look with anticipation at the shower rooms being erected for their comfort. Two shower rooms are nearing completion, each having 6 showers and a large adjoining washroom. The buildings are of brick and will have both hot and cold water. June 19, 1945. Photo by T/4 Louis Raczkowski.
Two Chinese officer students of the General Staff School, near Kunming, China, observing the effect of mortar fire on distant target during a demonstration of infantry weapons. June 5, 1945. Photo by Pfc. Seymour Israel. 164th Signal Photographic Company, APO 627.
Using a power saw, with Chinese workers, is T/4 Robert E. Tainsh, cutting cross beams for bridges being built in the Kao Tien District of the Burma Road that is being built from Lungling, China, to meet the Ledo Road at the Burma border. December 1, 1944. Photo by T/5 William E. Shemorry. 164th Signal Photographic Company, APO 627. Passed...
Mafu (马夫) horse-keeper quarters in revetment stable with bomb shelter dug into earth at far end. December 6, 1944. Photo by T/5 William E. Shemorry. 164th Signal Photographic Company, APO 627. Passed by William E. Whitten.
View of burned gasoline drums, shell fuses, etc., gathered by Japanese for salvage from destroyed Chinese dump north of Zhefang. December 5, 1944. Photo by T/5 William E. Shemorry. 164th Signal Photographic Company, APO 627. Passed by William E. Whitten.
Space in camouflaged Japanese revetment for truck, now filled with tangled wreckage. December 6, 1944. Photo by T/5 William E. Shemorry. 164th Signal Photographic Company, APO 627. Passed by William E. Whitten.
Chinese soldiers salvaging large pieces of sheet metal to sue in construction of shelters. Zhefang is half built and half littered with pieces like this. December 6, 1944. Photo by T/5 William E. Shemorry. 164th Signal Photographic Company, APO 627. Passed by William E. Whitten.
