Longyuan village

Top image (above) is the the village immediately adjacent to the former Yangkai airbase during our visit in February on 2016. The local people refer to the base by the name of the village, Longyuan (龙院), and not by Yangkai (or Yangjie in standard Mandarin; 羊街), which is a larger village some distance away. This village was heavily influenced by...

' The familiar mountains to the west of the base that are the backdrop for so many wartime American pictures taken on the Yangkai base. For example, in the top image, the dark gully going down the face of the mountain can be clearly seen in this image (between the two men), and in this image (above the B-25 cockpit...