Chinese ground crews clean 50 cal. machine guns during WWII. Left to right: Sgts. Huang Wan-yi, Liu Hantao, and Toeng Tac-Han Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

A disassembled Japanese mine dug up at Liuzhou, Guangxi province, in the CBI.

A crew of the 11th Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group, stands beside a B-25 "Tokyo Jo" somewhere in China on 2 February 1943. They are: Capt. E. W. Holstrom Lt. L. J. Murphy Capt. Clayton Campbell Lt. George A. Stout T/Sgt. Douglas V. Radney S/Sgt. Robert T. Schafer Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

GIs in China enjoy time laughing at movie celebrity Pat O'Brien's jokes. Seated left to right are S/Sgt. Quisenberry, Pat O'Brien, S/Sgt. Robert L. Sorenson. Standing are S/Sgt. T. W. Wilson, Sgt. Joseph Campion, S/Sgt. Leslie Piehl, S/Sgt. Jerry Dusek, Sgt Wallace Jackson, Sgt. Henry E. Kubieck, Pvt. Gordon Escore. In rear are Pvt. Kenneth Hummel, Sgt. Andrew Adamchik, S/Sgt...

Capt. Joseph Norton, chief CACW Weather Officer, and Sgt. Jack Barishman discuss the approach of a "front" with Chinese Weather Officier, Capt. Y. H. Wei. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

A B-25 bombs 9000-foot Yellow River bridge. June 24, 1944, 1st Bomb Group, Provisional; 2nd Bomb Squadron. Near Kaifeng, Henan, China. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

Mines placed on left and right of this hole on a runway by retreating Japanese at Liuzhou, Guangxi province, in the CBI, to induce the curious to approach and thereby detonate the mines.

'Unidentified remains in a field.' Southwest of Liuchow, fighters of the Fourteenth Air Force caught a cavalry column headed towards Liuchow following the Japanese retreat after Ichigo. The Japanese did not have time to bury their dead and the remains of horses and horsemen lay scattered throughout the valley.