491st Bomb Squadron aircraft #438, a B-25J appears smooth in formation flight in spite of large, turbulent clouds filling the China sky behind it. Notice the barrels of three .50 caliber machine guns sticking out of the nose of the aircraft. One is a flexible gun, used by the bombardier or navigator to defend the nose from attack. The other...

Americans in a jeep, China, during WWII.

More washing girls the day of the mounds, Spring 1945, probably Yangkai. During WWII.

John Carberry and Claude Darni in front of B-25 and holding rifles in Yangkai, Spring 1944.

A close-up of rice threshing from the first village on the way to Yangkai. During WWII.

Captain Berwyn Fly and Lt. Col. Wright Hiatt survey damage done to former 14th Air Force flight strip at Liuzhou (Liuchow) by the Japanese before retreating northward. In WWII.

Three sergeants of the 14th Air Force meeting costumed Chinese performers of the celebration for the opening of the Burma Road. Left to right: M/Sgt. Graham K. Kidd, Actor Li Gin Pui, S/Sgt. Albert Wong, actor Tu Wen Lin, and M/Sgt. Richard L. Hapgood. In China during WWII.

Enlisted men of the 51st Fighter Group in the 14th Air Force, with carbines in hand, travel to work in their all-purpose weapons carrier, fixed to lift heavy bombs onto fighters as well as carry personnel and supplies. A Chinese soldier looks on. Left to right: Pfc. John H. Carlisle, Pfc. Vincent R. Elliot, Cpl. Ralph E. Manna, T/Sgt. Robert...