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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 7,078 entries.
Lt. Colonel Wright Hiatt, Winchester, Indiana, and Capt. Berwyn Fry, 7314 Bennett Ave., Chicago, Ill., Engineers with the 14Th Air Force, and a Chinese worker, with two of the Japanese mines removed from the air strip, at Liuzhou (Liuchow), China.
American and Chinese soldiers--drivers of the first truck convoy to China in almost three years smile happily as they reach the China border at Wanting. The dusty, begrimed drivers took turns with their Allies in driving over the 1,004-mile route form Ledo, India, to Kunming, China. During WWII. (OWI-PW staff photo by Sgt. John Gutman)
Cooks Ruth Carrell, Betty Yeaton, Jinx Falkenburg visit the enlisted men's mess of the "China Blitzer" fighter squadron and the "Flying Horse" fighter group. The cooks are (left to right): Sgt. Joseph Chirko, Ruth Carrell, S/Sgt. Steve Nagy, Betty Yeaton, Jinx Falkenburg. In front is "Collen", Burmese refugee and mess attendant, in the background with glasses is Mr. John Woo...
September 14, 1944 Long shot of 150MM Krupp Howitzer gun, 10th Artillery Regiment 11th A/G, firing on Lungling. Photo by Pvt. W. E. Shemorry. In Yunnan province, China (CBI), in WWII. See related image here.
Chennault receives a bundle of Christmas greeting from China's children at the hand of his Chief Interpreter, Col. P. Y. Chu. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.