Busting bridges such as this one south of Sulien (possibly Silian 思练镇 today) slowed down retreating Japanese giving Chinese ground forcers opportunity to inflict more casualties. Bridge busting has been a speciality of fliers of the 14th Air Force. Japanese forces retreated over this road towards Liuzhou.

Fourteenth Air Force Transport Section radio operators outside their palatial Static Plaza, or in plain words, radio shack. Talking over things are Sgt Robert W. Riley, Steubenville, Ohio (left) and Sgt William Hellmund, Maplewood, N. J.. Looking puzzled at the innards of what makes music and messages is Sgt Philip C. Hagemann. From US Government sources.

American HQ in a cave in Guilin, Guangxi, China. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

B-25s fly away from just-bombed Yishan (now Yizhou) in Guangxi province, SW China, among Karst peaks during the Japanese Ichigo campaign of summer and fall 1944. Towns along the Ichigo route were bombed by American planes as the Japanese moved into them, or sometimes in advance, to deny the resources of the towns to the incoming Japanese. The Japanese entered...

Flag raising ceremony at new HQ for Col. Clayton B. Claasen's East China Wing, 14th Air Force. 1st Sgt.Clinton E. Shipley and Master Sergeant Robert A. Landgraf raised the flag.

Ingenious bicycle created by L.t Raymon J. Sweezy, Jr., a pilot in a Troop Carrier Squadron of the 14th Air Force in the CBI. Lt. Sweezy used a regular GI bicycle and a motor salvaged at the evacuation of Guilin. Behind him, the body of an aircraft (probably a C-47) has been converted to storage or a workshop.

Important road junction at Datang (大唐) given up by the Japanese as they retreated and withdrew to the north from Nanning through Liuzhou.

Pauline Frederick of Western Newspaper Union discusses the war in China with General Pao, while Captain William T. Randolph looks on. In the CBI during WWII.