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16th Combat Camera Unit

Some background on the 16th Combat Camera Unit can be found here: http://www.cbi-history.com/part_vi_16th_ccu.html

Capt. Howard W. Pennebaker of the 16th Combat Camera Unit congratulation 2nd Lt. Harold E. Geer on direct commision from T/Sgt. to 2nd Lt. January 11, 1945, in the CBI. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.
CASC Special Services variety show, January 14, 1945. Photos by 16th Combat Camera Unit, provided by Dorothy Yuen Leuba.
GIs hang out in barracks somewhere in the CBI during WWII. Image from Lt. W. Thomas Flemming, 16th Combat Camera Unit.
Aerial supply drop in China during WWII. 16th Combat Camera Unit photo.
"Kweilin in aerial photo (land of a thousand breasts)." Flying over distinct karst formations in Guangxi province, near Guilin (Kweilin), in China during WWII.
T/Sgt. Harold "Hal" Geer, photographer and videographer, 16th Combat Camera Unit (CCU) examines masking on bomb icons on a B-25 of the 11th Bomb Squadron (indicated by the "Mr. Jiggs" insignia) readying for painting to indicate three more bombing missions. Taken at Ehr Tong Airfield, Guilin (Kweilin), Guangxi Province, southwest China during WWII, as photographed by Selig Seidler, 16th CCU.
Firing Sten gun in Kweilin (Guilin, Guangxi province, China) during WWII. Sigmeir prone, Seidler on right after shooting gun.
"Hale, Sigmier, Feldman 4th man unknown?" sitting on a jeep at a base in Yunnan province during WWII.
"T. T. Hale in front of a Chinese Cemetery"-- The gravestone behind is for the Ni family, erected 1877, during the Qing dynasty (Guangxu period). In southwest China during WWII。
"Stewart, our unit clown" standing on a stone lion near a gate in Yunnan province, China, during WWII.