pipeline

Two jeeps, fitted with steel wheels that fit the rail tracks, pull cars loaded with oil pipes. In Burma. During WWII. 797th Engineer Forestry Company.

Truck carrying pipe on road in Burma. During WWII. 797th Engineer Forestry Company.

' The photographer and collector of the images in the Roubinek Collection in Yunnan province, China, during WWII. We know very little about this CBI veteran or the background of these images. See an overview here. An image from the Roubinek Collection, showing to American G.I.s walking near a fuel pipeline through rice paddy fields in Yunnan province, China, most...

American engineers in China work on fuel pipeline from India. During WWII.

American Army petroleum engineers bend a fuel pipe with a hydraulic jack going through a farming field in SW China while local people look on. During WWII. Photo by 164th Signal Photographic Company, provided by "Hibbert."

February 24, 1945--A coupling crew of the 779th Engineer Petroleum Distribution Company puts in a cable for pipeline suspension over creek near K-852. T/5 H. Christenson operates "coffin hoist," Sgt. Robert L. Rich keeps an eye on anchor in ground, as T/5 Clarence D. Faulk and Sgt. Edward Lucas look after cable clamps on "A" frame. Photo by T/5 George...

Sgt. James F. Collier demonstrating clamp he just made for purpose of holding pipe together for welding. December 29, 1944. 1381st Engineer Petroleum Dist. Co. Photo by T/5 Thomas Richie.

Some of the oil pipeline that stretched from Calcutta, India, to Kunming, China, during WWII. This image, from November 1944, is likely in western Yunnan province or just maybe eastern Burma. This pipeline carried, at various time, diesel and two grades of gasoline. Photo from George Bottoms.

A Chinese woman and child start a fire next to a pipeline in which gasoline is flowing, 15 miles out of Kunming, next to the road to Chenggong (Chengkung). During WWII.

Fuel pipeline from India snakes over hills in SW China during WWII. George E. Pollock.