Lucky Cafe

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...

Frank Bates, Johnny Burns, and George Butsika at the Lucky Cafe in Liuzhou, China. Sept 1944. See the Lucky Cafe after the destruction of Ichigo here.