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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.
A railway bridge is bombed by American aircraft along a river, probably in SW China, Indochina, or the China-Burma border region. More images of an attack on this bridge can be seen here.
A section of city wall and gate to Chenggong (Chengkung), possibly going back to the final days of the Ming Dynasty, 400 years before. Two Chinese men carry a wealthy Chinese merchant on a “hua-gan" (滑竿) pole chair. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.
In 1945, Gurkha troops board of the 2nd Air Commando Group board a C-47 for transport from Palel, India, to Meiktila, Burma. As can be seen in the blow-up below, the famous Gurkha are extremely well equipped. Photo from Norm Collard.
US convoy on a new road to China from India during WWII. Among the images collected by the editors of Ex-CBI Roundup (through reader submission), and shared with the Remembering Shared Honor project, were a series of images provided by Emery and Beth Vrana. Images include India, Burma, and China. See all images provided by Emery and Beth Vrana here.
