devastation

A bomb-damaged government building in Manila after the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. It is unknown how this got into Schuharts collection as a member 2005th Ordnance Maintenance Company, as he should have returned to the US via the Atlantic, and thus with no stopover in the Philippines.

Rubble and skeleton buildings--all that was left of most of Liuchow [Liuzhou] after heavy aerial bombing and artillery shelling during Japanese occupation." Notice how the original text, scratched out, tells who did the bombing, "...almost continuous Fourteenth Air Force aerial bombardment..." From US Government sources.

This Chinese girl, near starvation, was found in Liuchow [Liuzhou] after the Japanese evacuated the town in their retreat up the Siang Corridor. She sits among damaged buildings awaiting the reentry of Chinese and allied forces. Liuzhou is the second large city to fall on the Japanese GEA Lifeline. Nanning was reoccupied on May 27, 1945. From US Government sources.

Liuchow [Liuzhou] was the scene of hard fighting before the Japanese finally evacuated it. These three Chinese children make the best of their lot as reoccupation of the city goes forward. Liuzhou is the second large city to fall on the Japanese GEA Lifeline. Nanning was reoccupied on May 27, 1945. From US Government sources.

When the Japanese left Liuchow [Liuzhou], there was not much city for the civilians to come back to. This picture, made while the Japanese were still on the outskirts, shows the damage which the Japanese did to the town. From US Government sources.

After heavy fighting in the city of Liuchow [Liuzhou], from which the Japanese were driven, civilians return to their damaged city. Liuzhou is the second large city evacuated by the Japanese in the Siang Corridor. Nanning fell on May 27, 1945, at which time the Japanese GEA lifeline over Asia was broken. From US Government sources.

Second large city in the Siang Corridor to be reoccupied by Chinese ground forces is Liuchow (Liuzhou). Scene of heavy fighting, the city unlike Nanning which was evacuated with only minor damage, suffered severely... From the U.S. Government sources.

Evidence of the aerial and artillery beating Liuchow (Liuzhou) took before the Japanese evacuated on June 30, 1945. Both the city and its airfield were heavily damaged. From the U.S. Government sources.

GI poses among the rubble. Bomb damage on a street corner in Liuchow (Liuzhou). The city and airfield both suffered heavily during the fighting that preceded the Japanese evacuation on June 30, 1945. A American serviceman stands in the foreground, next to a slogan that reads in Chinese, "Support Chairman Jiang", and the name of the building formerly, the "Lucky...

What was formerly a group of modern Chinese buildings in Liuchow now resembles a sprawling brickyard. Heavy aerial bombardment and artillery shelling made rubble of most of the city, and, combined with the advance of Chinese ground troops, contributed to the evacuation of the Japanese after Ichigo.